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By Harold P. Adams, Jr. 564 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2007. $165. ISBN 978-0-07-141653-5.

Writing a medical book has always been an act of dedication and a thankless and exhausting task. And with the international body of information expanding daily at a breathtaking pace, a book authored by only one person sounds impossibly daunting, even within the confines of a subspecialty such as neurology. By definition, such a book will have not only all the inherent limitations and biases of one person's observations and opinions but also the limitations that result from the inevitable delays of publication. Principles of Cerebrovascular Disease represents a prodigious amount of work on the part of its author. It . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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