The legacy of Tracy J. Putnam and H. Houston Merritt : modern neurology in the United States / Lewis P. Rowland.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

x, 159 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Dilantin: the great achievement of Tracy Jackson Putnam and H. Houston Merritt -- Putnam, a true Boston Brahmin -- Boston City Hospital: cradle of modern neurology in the United States -- Putnam moves from Harvard and Boston to Columbia and New York City: in harm's way -- Putnam at the New York Neurological Institute: clinical activity and vulnerability -- The Jewish question and political liberalism -- Putnam establishes basic and translational neuroscience at Columbia -- Putnam gets the boot: how it was done -- Phenytoin and the road from psychoanalysis to psychopharmacology -- H. Houston Merritt, 1902-1979 -- Merritt moves to New York: Montefiore and Columbia: another tale of two hospitals -- Putnam in California -- Merritt's last days.

Includes bibliographical references and index.