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Volume 36 - Issue 3 - July 1992

Book Reviews

Alex Mercer, Disease, mortality andpopulation in transition: epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon, Leicester University Press, 1990, pp. xiv, 262, £45.00 (0-7185-1344 4).

Jack D. Ellis, The physician-legislators of France: medicine and politics in the early Third Republic, 1870–1914, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xii, 305, £35.00, $49.50.

Carol Trowbridge, Andrew Taylor Still, 1828–1917, Kirksville, Missouri, The Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1991, pp. xiv, 233, illus., $50.00 (0-943549-06-X).

Davida Rubin (comp.), Sir Kenelm Digby F.R.S. (1603–1665): a bibliography based on the collection of K. Garth Huston, Sr., M.D., San Francisco, Jeremy Norman, 1991, pp. xvi, 130, illus., $95.00 (0-930405-29-3).

Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg, Pictures of health: a photographic history of health care in Philadelphia 1860–1945, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, pp. xxix, 197, illus., $49.95 (0-8122-8237-X), $29.95 (paperback, 0-8122-1311-4).

Jean Théodoridès, Des miasmes aux virus, Paris, Editions Louis Parientes, 1991, pp. 378, illus. (2-902474-64-4).

Carlo M. Cipolla, Miasmas and disease: public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age, transl. Elizabeth Potter, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. x, 101, £16.95, $25.00 (0-300-04806-8).

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Deadly dust: silicosis and the politics of occupational disease in twentieth-century America, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. xiii,229, $29.95 (0-691-04758-8).

Roy Porter, Doctor of society: Thomas Beddoes and the sick trade in late-Enlightenment England, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. x, 238, £40.00 (0-415-04850-8)

Allen G. Debus, The French Paracelsians: the chemical challenge to medical and scientific tradition in early modern France, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 247, illus., £40.00, $59.95 (0-521-40049-X).

Robert I. Curtis, Garum and salsamenta: production and commerce in materia medica, Studies in Ancient Medicine, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1991, pp. xv, 226, illus., Gld. 110.00, $57.00 (90-049423-7).

Jens Peder Hart Hansen, Jørgen Meldgaard, and Jørgen Nordqvist (eds), The Greenland mummies, London, British Museum Press, 1991, pp. 192, illus., £14.95 (0-7141-2500-8).

John SnowMD, On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours, Introductory essay by Dr Richard Ellis, London and New York, Royal Society of Medicine Services Ltd., 1991, pp. xxvii, 112, £20.00 (1-85315-158-0).

Lisa Rosner, Medical education in the age of improvement: Edinburgh students and apprentices 1760–1826, Edinburgh University Press, 1991, pp. 273, £30.00 (0-7486-0245-3)

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