Correlative anatomy of the nervous system.

Abstract

<i>Correlative Anatomy of the Nervous System</i>is an important book, not so much for the first-year medical student as for everyone who is planning a career in neurology. The medical neurologist and neurosurgeon will find it indispensable as an authoritative source of information and a guide to the pertinent literature. There are 4,315 bibliographic titles cited chapter-by-chapter, a feature which, alone, will justify the price of the book. There are nine chapters and an atlas of myelin-stained sections through the cord and brain stem. Chapter seven, on the telencephalon, is the longest (175 pages), and it is further subdivided into ten parts. The book is well indexed. The first chapter, "Histology of Nerve Cells," presents a rather conventional account of the elements comprising nervous tissue; fine structure of the myelin sheath is the most up-to-date part. Neuroglia are relegated to a single page of text and two plates of dark