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BOOK REVIEW

John Hughlings Jackson: Clinical Neurology, Evolution, and Victorian Brain Science

Samuel H. Greenblatt. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022, 559 pp., b/w illustrations, $105, ISBN: 978-0-19-289764-0 (cloth).

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