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by R. Ray Battin, PhD, 103 pp, with illustrations, $11.75, Charles C Thomas Publisher, 1974.

WALLACE RUBIN, MD, Reviewer

Arch Otolaryngol. 1974;100(4):328.

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I carefully read the book entitled Vestibulography. I find it extremely useless, misleading, and poorly documented. As a matter of fact, everything in the book has been excerpted and copied from other people's works. There is nothing original about anything in this publication.

My comments chapter by chapter are as follows:

Chapter 1–"The Anatomy of the Balance System" is sketchy and inaccurate.

Chapter 2–"Instrumentation" has been copied and copied poorly from a number of publications.

Chapter 3–"Vestibular Test Battery" is extremely misleading and has obviously not been written by a clinician with the patient in mind.

Chapter 4–"Clinical Interpretation" is completely useless and misleading in the way that the recordings are presented. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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