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BOOK REVIEW

Victor Horsley: The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience

Michael J. Aminoff. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 208 + XII pp., b/w illustrations, $84.99. ISBN: 978-1-316-51308-8 (cloth).

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