The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis--Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [Hardcover]

Byron M. Hyde (Author, Editor), Jay A. Goldstein (Author, Editor), P. H. Levine (Editor), Nightingale Research Foundation (Corporate Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1992

Eighty of the world's leading M.E./CFS authorities have contributed their knowledge to produce a 750-page encyclopedia on the disease process that may be one of the biggest single causes of chronic illness in the world today. Known in the United States as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and in Great Britain both as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome, M.E./CFS has provoked a chronic disabling illness in an estimated 1,000,000 persons in North America and Europe.

This book provides, in one superb 75-chapter source, an up-to-date, comprehensive account of current knowledge concerning the history, epidemiology, children with M.E., investigation, virology, immunology, muscle pathology, host response, food intolerance, brain mapping, neurophysiology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, sleep dysfunction, fibromyalgia syndrome, treatment and management.

This is an essential reference book for medical, government and public library reference rooms. This text is a unique vehicle for researchers, physicians and other health education and government officials, and is easily understandable by the general public interested in M.E./CFS.

All funds from this text will be used both to promote research and to assist in greater understanding of M.E./CFS.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...this is a comprehensive volume of current knowledge on CFS...this book will serve to better understand this misunderstood entity. " -- Javier Villanueva-Meyer, MD, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

"It is a remarkable work. It is a very important achievement in the field of CFS..." -- J. Prieto, MD, Clinica Universitaria, Facultad de Medicina, Spain.

"It is a very impressive volume in both style and content. I very much enjoy the work and am pleased to be able to add it to my library." -- Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Professor, University of Southern California School of Medicine.

"It is an impressive volume! It is very beautifully printed, well-organized and tastefully done." -- Seymour Grufferman, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, University of Pittsburgh

"It is an outstanding volume both for content and aspect. I am sure it will become a milestone in the scientific history of the disease." -- Mauro Bendinelli, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Universita di Pisa, Dipartimento Di Biomedicina, Italy.

"Let me again stress that I am very pleased with your book and your excellent addendum on Dr. Sigurdsson. " -- Gudmundur Petursson, Institute for Experimental Pathology, University of Iceland.

"Let me offer you both thanks and congratulations on a comprehensive work well done; a medical book with a human face." -- Professor C. R. Boughton, The Prince of Henry Hospital, Australia.

"We believe you have done CFS sufferers a service worldwide with this book...As a vehicle for raising public awareness and stimulating debate, we can hardly imagine anything more provocative." -- John Cross, PhD, University of Otago, Department of Microbiology, New Zealand.

The Nightingale Research Foundation "has broken new ground in compiling and editing a broad range of information about one of the most devastating of all chronic illnesses, braving the Zeitgeist by presenting ideas not only from the common wisdom of traditional medicine and research, but also from the worthy individuals in step with other drummers. The scope of your text is far-ranging and you leave no stone, no virus, unturned. The book is, to say the least, provocative and I'm sure that it will serve to stimulate researchers around the world to accept the challenge you have set before them. But most of all, your text will give new hope to many patients that finally the medical community is beginning to take this illness seriously. -- Walter J. Gunn, PhD, President, Arlington Associates Inc., and former Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Principal Investigator for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Studies.

About the Author

Dr. Byron M. Hyde is founder and chairman of The Nightingale Research Foundation, a charitable organization located in Ottawa, Canada dedicated to conduct and assist research into the cause and cure of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E./CFS).

Dr. Byron Hyde attended the Haileybury School of Mines and worked as a geophysicist. He then did pre-medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and University College, University of Toronto, obtaining a degree in chemistry and nutrition. He graduated in medicine from the University of Ottawa where he was the Director and Chief of the International Exchange Program for the Canadian Association of Medical Students and Interns (CAMSI). Dr. Hyde founded the International Summer School in Tropical Medicine. He interned at Hotel Dieu in Montreal, was a resident at St. Justine Hospital in Montreal and at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. He also studied in Munich at the University Kinderklinik and in Paris at the Necker Hospital for Children.

He was a research chemist at the Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbour, Maine, a leading world laboratory in immunological research. Following this, he was Chief Technician in charge of the Electron Microscope Laboratory in Toronto at the Hospital for Sick Children, followed by a similar post at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Hyde has authored a book on Electron Microscopy and two non-medical books. Dr. Hyde has been a physician for 32 years and has performed charitable work as a physician in Laos and the Caribbean. He held the position of Chairman of the Ottawa Community Health Services Association, and is presently Chairman of The Nightingale Research Foundation.

In 1984, Dr. Hyde began the full-time study of the disease process then known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (renamed in 1986 by Dr. Gary Holmes in the USA to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). He has worked exclusively with M.E./CFS patients since 1985. In 1988, Dr. Hyde organized an association and founded The Nightingale Research Foundation, dedicated to the study of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He has also acted as Chairman of the 1990 Cambridge Easter Symposium and of the Workshop on Canadian Research Directions for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in May, 1991, at the University of British Columbia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 724 pages
• Publisher: Nightingale Research Fndtn (July 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0969566204
• ISBN-13: 978-0969566205
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,631,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still worth reading after all these years..., January 30, 2001

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Melissa Kaplan (Sonoma County, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis--Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Hardcover)

Shortly after I was diagnosed with CFS and FM by Jay Goldstein, MD, I attended a "CFS and the Brain" conference at which Byron Hyde and several other researchers who appear in this book's pages spoke and shared their research and questions. Nearly a decade later, much of the information in this book is still germane - and interesting, such as the historical recounting of epidemics through the years, brain imaging patterns, neurocognitive abnormalities and more.

If you aren't interested in this book for yourself, consider buying this book and donating it to your local public library or CFS/FM/MCS/ME or neuroimmune/autoimmune diseases support group so it can be read and learned from by those who are unable to afford it for themselves.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The clinical and scientific basis of Myalgic Encephalitis, April 22, 2004

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Daniel (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis--Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Hardcover)

Unbelievably insightfull to those who have or are suffering
from this devestating disease process .Every treating physician
should have this in there office.In my personal observations
with some people I have met and also myself and my wife it is
definetly and as a matter of medical fact a potential lifesaver.
The fact that this author Dr. Byron Hyde has went to extreme
lenghts to study research and organise the world symposium
on this to gather varied medical research and facts from all

these brilliant minds tells me that this man deserves at the
very least a medal of Honour but rather the Nobel Peace Prize
for devoting at least 25 years of his life to studying and
caring enough to try and find the cause and cure of so much
human suffering that exists in our world. My sincerest regards...
P.S. I passed on the book to another fellow sufferer and never
really got the chance to read very much but my doctor has one now.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential M.E. textbook for patient and doctor alike, December 31, 2007

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This review is from: The Clinical and Scientific Basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis--Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Hardcover)

An excellent resource from Dr Byron Hyde MD (editor).

This book is the one and only M.E. textbook. This book is essential reading for anyone with M.E., or an interest in M.E. Buy this book!!!

Not all of the many chapters in this book are worthwhile or still current, BUT this book is well worth the price and the 5 stars even if only for the five or six chapters written by Dr Hyde, unarguably the world's leading M.E. expert.

I'd also highly recommend you check out Dr Hyde's more recent writings. I cannot recommend them highly enough.