Deep Dyslexia

This will become a major reference book on stroke. The two volumes cover all aspects of neurological vascular disease including that effecting the spinal cord. Volume I covers the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations and investigation of stroke. Volume 2 includes an excellent section on specific medical disorders associated with stroke (11 chapters). There is a most extensive and at times exciting section on stroke therapy (15 chapters) including chapters on progressing stroke, interventional neuro-radiology, surgical considerations, antispasmodics and fibrinolysins. The editors have themselves made a major contribution to the writing of the book and this helps considerably in giving it a sound framework and uniformity. The quality throughout is of the highest order and the contributors appreciate the major issues of the day and tackle them well. There is an extremely rich source of references. Some of the authors have been rather too enthusiastic in compiling their reference list. The second edition might be improved by starring the key references for the relatively uninitiated.The index will also doubtless be improved in the second edition; for example, there was no entry for anaemia, leukaemia, polycythaemia or thrombocytosis. This excellent book in two volumes should be obtainable in every medical library.