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Book Review: Diseases of the Nervous System

have reversed this order by starting with the disease and then describing the various viruses that have been associated with it. This approach has obvious advantages to clinicians. A neurologist can, for example, find under one heading all the recent information on viral infection of the central nervous system, whereas in standard texts he would have to hunt for the same material in the appropriate parts ofa series ofchapters concerned with the enteroviruses, mumps virus, rhabdoviruses, the herpesviruses and so forth. The first section of this volume deals with viral disease of the nervous system. It is the most detailed, and is particularly valuable since this is a field in which, apart from poliomyelitis, there has been too little collaboration between clinician and virologist. It is a difficult subject since many of the diseases have a complex pathogenesis involving allergic reactions or persistent infection but one in which there could be spectacular advances in coming years. The remaining sections deal in turn with the infections whose manifestations involve muscles, the digestive tract, the skin, the cardiovascular system, the respiratory tract and the eye. The final section deals with a miscellany of subjects such as congenital infections and tumour viruses. The original concept of the book could perhaps have been followed with greater conviction. For example, there is no account of Q-fever endocarditis in the section on cardiovascular disease and only a brief and irrelevant reference to it in the section on respiratory disease. Again, in a book of this kind it would have been justifiable to have a separate subsection on venereal disease, to deal not only with lymphogranuloma venereum but also the new information on the genital strains of herpes simplex virus. It should also be mentioned that the translation from the original French is not always easy to follow. These minor criticisms should not detract from the fact that this is an excellent book and those concerned with its production should be congratulated on the effort they have put into presenting clinical virology in this sensible way. It can be strongly recommended to physicians, and even experienced clinical virologists will find it informative. R B HEATH