With recent studies showing that paediatricians make a diagnostic error in up to one in three children where epilepsy is considered (for none too complacent paediatric neurologists it is one in 15), it is a relief to know that there are texts available that might remedy the situation. As I eagerly turned its leaves, however, the realisation dawned that this book may not offer the whole cure. The first edition preface commended the text to “specialists in” … neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, paediatrics, alienist medicine (have they landed already and why were …