In this most extraordinary book, one of the great clinical writers of the 20'th century recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of nuerological disorders. This book containes the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual abberrations: patients who have lost their memory and with it the greater part of their past; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenties; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.