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Volume 29 - Issue 1 - January 1985

Articles

The nature of provincial medical practice in eighteenth-century England

Ignaz Semmelweis, Carl Mayrhofer, and the rise of germ theory

The edge of utility: Slaves and smallpox in the early eighteenth century

The vicissitudes of herbalism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Conrad Gesner and the English naturalists *

Obituary

Jessie Dobson, MSc

News, Notes, and Queries

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Book Review

Kenneth Dewhurst (editor), Richard Lower's Vindicatio: A defence of the experimental method, Oxford, Sandford Publications, 1983, pp. xxxiv, 313, [including facsimile], £25.00.

SirGordon Wolstenholme (editor), Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians (Munk's Roll), Oxford and Washington DC, IRL Press; vol. 6: 1966-75, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 505, illus., £25.00; vol. 7: 1976-83, 1984, 8vo, pp. xi, 646, illus., £35.00.

W. E. Heyningen and John R. Seal, Cholera. The American scientific experience 1947–80, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xvi, 343, illus., £24.00 (UK suppliers: Bowker Publishing Co., Epping, Essex).

Giuliano Pancaldi, Darwin in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1983, 8vo, pp. 294, L.25.000 (paperback). - Giuliano Pancaldi (editor), I congressi degli scienziati italiani nell' età delpositivismo, Bologna, Cooperativa Libreria Universitaria Editrice, 1983, 8vo, pp. 225, L.16.000.

Alexander Todd, A time to remember. The autobiography of a chemist, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 257, £15.00.

S. Grisolia, C. Guerri, F. Samson, S. Norton, and F. Reinoso-Suarez (editors), Ramon y Cajal's contributions to the neurosciences, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1983, 8vo, pp.xviii, 267, illus., Dfl. 190.00.

Jerome O. Nriagu, Lead and lead poisoning in antiquity, New York and Chichester, John Wiley, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiii, 437, £47.50.

Istvan Benedek, Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis 1818–65, Vienna and Cologne, Böhlaus,1983, 8vo, pp. 398, Os.530.00/DM.70.00. - Istvan Benedek, Semmelweis' Krankheit, Budapest, Akademiai Kaido, 1983, 8vo, pp. 110, illus., £4.40.

François Lasserre and Phillippe Mudry (editors), Formes de pensée dans la collection hippocratique, Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1983, 8vo, pp. 541, [no price stated] (paperback).

Hartmut ähndrich (editor and translator), Treatise to Salah ad-Din on the revival of the art of medicine by Ibn Jumay, Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 49 + facsimile, DM. 75.00 (paperback).

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Volume 29 - Issue 1 - January 1985

Articles

Obituary

News, Notes, and Queries

Book Review