Description
Russell Brain originally published Diseases of the Nervous System in 1933. In the preface to the first edition, Russell Brain pointed out that the previous 20 years had “…witnessed a remarkable development in neurology. Investigation of the effects of war injuries of the spinal cord had greatly increased our knowledge of reflex action in man”.
This was not, of course, the only stimulus to producing the book, but it seems a pity that the spinal cord is not rather better dealt with in these pages. By the time the book reached the 7th edition, John Walton (Lord Walton) had joined Lord Brain in revising the book and Lord Walton continued as sole author for the 8th and 9th edition.
