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By Wilder Penfield, MD. Price, $5. Pp 189. Little, Brown & Company, 34 Beacon St, Boston 02108, 1963.

Walter C. Alvarez, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1964;113(6):895-896.

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All physicians who are interested in what a man can do after compulsory retirement from a very busy and useful life should get a copy of Wilder Penfield's The SecondCareer. As everyone knows, Dr. Penfield for years has been probably the most distinguished brain surgeon in the world—head of the great Neurologic Institute at McGill University. He has been interested not only in removing brain tumors, but in studying the physiology of the human brain. While operating under local anesthesia, he has often stimulated various parts of the brain with a tiny electric current, and has recorded what the patient said he experienced. Sometimes the stimulus would bring back vivid memories, and at other times it would produce a momentary aphasia.

As many of us will recall with pleasure, in recent years Dr. Penfield wrote two novels, one No Other Gods, a story of Abraham and Sarai, and the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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