CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Sir Charles Sherrington O.M. P.R.S. (1857-1952) -- 2. Henry Head (1861-1940) -- HEAD'S BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE -- UNIVERSITY YEARS -- EARLY MEDICAL CAREER (1890-1904) -- MARRIAGE TO RUTH MAYHEW IN 1904 -- FROM 1904 TO 1910 -- HEAD'S INTEREST IN SPEECH 1910-1926 -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918 -- AFTER THE GREAT FIRST WORLD WAR -- HEAD'S BOOK ON APHASIA -- THE FINAL FOURTEEN YEARS (1926-1940) -- References -- 3. The British Contribution to Aphasiology -- JOHN HUGHLINGS JACKSON -- HENRY CHARLTON BASTIAN -- HENRY HEAD -- MACDONALD CRITCHLEY -- STUDIES IN PARAGRAMMATISM -- CATEGORY-SPECIFIC SEMANTIC DISORDERS -- DEEP DYSLEXIA IN PATIENTS WITH LANGUAGE DEFICIT -- FUNCTIONAL IMAGING STUDIES OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AND COGNITIVE DEFICIT -- SPEECH THERAPY FOR APHASIA -- CONCLUSIONS -- References -- 4. The Concept of Hemispheric Lateralisation -- References -- 5. James Hinshelwood (1859-1919) and Developmental Dyslexia -- INTRODUCTION -- DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA -- MAIN EVENTS OF HINSHELWOOD'S LIFE -- AFTER HINSHELWOOD -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 6. Wilfred Harris (1869-1960) -- References -- 7. Sir Gordon Holmes (1876-1965) -- 8. Sir Gordon Holmes: A Personal Reminiscence -- 9. Gordon Holmes' Work on Sensation and His Association with Henry Head -- 10. Looking and Seeing - Gordon Holmes' 1936 John Mallet Purser Lecture Revisited -- References -- 11. Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937) and His Books -- APRAXIA -- WILSON'S DISEASE -- THE MOTOR SYSTEM -- THE EPILEPSIES -- LIBRARY -- TEXTBOOK -- References -- Bibliography -- 12. Movement Disorders -- SYDENHAM'S CHOREA -- PARKINSON'S DISEASE -- WEST'S SYNDROME -- TOURETTE'S SYNDROME -- MEIGE'S SYNDROME -- WILLIAM GOWERS AND GORDON HOLMES ON MOVEMENT DISORDERS -- WILSON'S DISEASE -- CONTEMPORARIES.

MACDONALD CRITCHLEY - THE GENTLE COLOSSUS -- References -- 13. Kernicterus -- CLINICAL FEATURES -- INCIDENCE -- POST-MORTEM FINDINGS -- AETIOLOGY -- PREVENTION AND TREATMENT -- LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF NEONATAL JAUNDICE -- CONCLUSION -- References -- 14. The Watershed of Neurosurgery -- CEREBRAL ABSCESS -- SIR WILLIAM MACEWEN -- VICTOR HORSLEY (1857-1916) -- References -- 15. Sir Victor Horsley (1857-1916) Revisited -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOGRAPHY -- FAMILY MATTERS -- PUPILS -- ASSESSMENTS -- ODIOUS COMPARISONS -- References -- 16. Neurosurgery in the Nineteen-Twenties and Thirties -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FORMATION OF SBNS -- EATING HABITS AND HOTEL ACCOMMODATION OF BRITISH NEUROSURGEONS -- THE PRACTICE OF NEUROSUGERY IN 1926: A CASE OF QUEEN SQUARE -- MORE MEETINGS MORE MEMBERS -- FATHERHOOD DISPUTED -- A TRIP TO GERMANY -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 17. Neurolathyrism -- References -- 18. From Treponemes to Prions: The Emergence of British Neuropathology -- EARLY NEUROPATHOLOGY IN THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS -- MORE ASYLUM PATHOLOGY: FORD ROBERTSON AND FREDERICK MOTT -- NEUROSURGERY AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN CLINICAL NEUROPATHOLOGY -- EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPATHOLOGY: THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY -- THE EXPANSION OF NEUROPATHOLOGY -- THE NEUROPATHOLOGICAL CLUB -- THE BRITISH AND NEUROPATHOLOGY -- THE FUTURE OF NEUROPATHOLOGY IN BRITAIN -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 19. Mitochondrial Myopathies -- INTRODUCTION -- CLASSIFICATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS -- CLINICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL FEATURES OF MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE -- CPEO -- LHON -- NARP and Leigh's Syndrome -- MELAS -- MERRF -- TREATMENT OF MITOCHONDRIAL DISORDERS -- Reference -- 20. British and American Neurologists Meet: London 1927 -- INTRODUCTION -- THE MEETING -- CONCLUSION -- References.

21. The Influence of British Neurology on Harvard Neurology and Vice Versa -- GASPAR SPURZHEIM (1776-1832) -- CHARLES EDOUARD BROWN-SEQUARD (1817-1894) -- SIR DAVID FERRIER (1843-1928) -- HARVEY CUSHING (1869-1939) -- SIR CHARLES SYMONDS (1890-1971) -- STANLEY COBB (1887-1968) -- DEREK DENNY-BROWN (1901-1981) -- NORMAN GESCHWIND (1926-1984) -- References -- Index.