The Legacy of Tracy J Putnam and H. Houston Merritt

Lewis P. Rowland, MD, is Professor of Neurology and Chairman Emeritus at Columbia University; Attending Neurologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital; a Consultant at Harlem Hospital; editor of a bi-weekly newspaper, Neurology Today; and the editor since the Seventh Edition of Merritt's Neurology.

• 1. Dilantin: Their Great Achievement ; 2. Putnam, a True Boston Brahmin. ; 3. Boston City Hospital: Cradle of Neurology. ; 4. Putnam Moves to New York City ; 5. Putnam at the New York Neurological Institute ; 6. The Jewish Question ; 7. Putnam Establishes Columbia Neuroscience ; 8. Dilantin and Psychiatry ; 9. Putnam Gets the Boot ; 10. H.H. Merritt, Canny North Carolinian at Harvard and Columbia ; 11. Merritt Moves to New York and Flourishes at Two Hospitals ; 12. Putnam in California ; 13. Merritt's Last Days

Dr. Lewis Rowland, distinguished neurologist, author, editor and teacher, has been a major leader in the extraordinary growth and development of Neurology from an arcane specialty to the explosive field of neuroscience over the past fifty years...Now, with the arrival of his latest book, The Legacy of Tracy J. Putnam and H. Houston Merritt: Modern Neurology in the Unjtied States, readers interested in the history of Neurology will welcome Dr. Rowland's insights into these two icons of 20th Century neurosurgery and neurology. Having spent the major years of his career at Columbia University Medical School, Dr. Rowland is uniquely qualified to tell this story. Readers will appreciate his lucid style and his analysis of these events and the individuals who led the way.