London: Pitman Medical Publishing Co., (1960). Hardcover first edition - A lighthearted series of essays by Brain, a noted neurologist and physician, on various historical and literary figures including Jonathan Swift, Dr Johnson, Lord Monboddo (evolutionist and anti-Johnsonian), Christopher Smart, Dickens, and others. Illustrated chapter heads and tails by Norman Smith. Glossary of medical terms. 192 pp.