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Book reviews 1183 One cannot help but think that Ramon y Cajal he has clearly taken a great interest in the clinical would have approved of his successors. aspects of his subject over a period of many years. D. G. F. HARRIMAN The book is said to have been written for general practitioners and medical students as well as for specialists, but its wealth of detail does perhaps GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY IN make it more suited for the latter than the former. NEUROBIOLOGY By E. Costa and B. Holmstedt. the book is to The first half of devoted basic (Pp. 175; illustrated; Dfl. 44.) North Holland: In principles and to clinical considerations. the Amsterdam. 1973. on middle there is a single short chapter such This is an easily digested book which deals with the 'borderland' topics as migraine, paroxysmal ab- elucidation and determination of a range of drugs of but these dominal pain, and attacks vertigo, are and their metabolites, and other endogenous tissue The remainder of dealt with only very cursorily. the constituents of known structure. It is possible that book is concerned with diagnosis and management, the link gas chromatography-mass spectrometry is and includes on the and