This monograph by a British neurologist, a general physician, and a pathologist, respectively, is an important survey of our present knowledge of multiple sclerosis and a distillation of the experience and opinions of the authors. After a brief but discriminating historical note, they discuss the curious and unexplained geographical distribution of the disease, the putative etiological factors, the complex symptomatology as observed in both clinic and laboratory, and the problems of
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