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Volume 7 - Issue 3 - July 1963

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Histoire de la Médecine et du Livre Médical á la Lumiére des Collections de la Bibliothéque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, by André Hahn, Paule Dumaître, and Janine Samion-Contet, Paris, Editions Olivier Perrin, 1962, pp. 433, 263 illus. (8 col.), 102 NF.

Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement, by James H. Cassedy, Harvard Univ. Press, and London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1962, pp. 310, frontis., 46s.

Fourcroy, Chemist and Revolutionary (1755-1809), by W. A. Smeaton, Cambridge, printed for the author by Heffer & Sons, 1962, pp. XXI+288, 40s.

Medicines for the Union Army. The United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War, by George Winston Smith, Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1962, pp. VII+ 119, 8 illus. $2.75.

Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases, by William HeberdenM.D., facsimile of London 1802 edition, with preface by Paul Klemperer (History of Medicine series, no. 18), New York, Hafner Publishing Co., 1962, pp. 483, $3.00.

A Short History of the Royal Society Club of Edinburgh, 1820 to 1962, by Douglas Guthrie, Edinburgh, published privately for the Royal Society Club, 1963, pp. 40, illus., 10s. (obtainable from the Secretary, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, Edinburgh).

Histoire de la Zoologie des Origines d Linné, by Georges Petit and Jean Thaodoridas, Paris, Hermann, 1962, pp. XII, 360, 24 plates, 18 NF.

History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustrations, by Ludwig Choulant, trans. and annot. by Mortimer Frank, limited revised ed. New York, Hafner Publishing Co., 1962, pp. XXVII, 435, $15.

The Story of X-Rays from Roentgen to Isotopes, edited by Alan Ralph Bleich, New York, Dover Publications, pp. 186, illus., $1.35.

Pathology, by E. B. Krumbhaar, Clio Medica No. 19, New York and London, Hafner Publ. Co., 1962, pp. 206, 18 illus., 18s. 6d.

Die Klumpfusslehre der Hippokratiker, translated and edited by Markwart Michler (Sudhoffs Archiv, Suppl. 2), Wiesbaden, Steiner Verlag, 1963, pp. 64, illus., D.M. 10.

A History of Scientific and Technical Periodicals: the Origins and Development of the Scientific and Technological Press, 1665–1790, David A. Kronick, New York, Scarecrow Press, 1962, pp. 274, $6.50, 65s.

The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations, by Walter Addison Jayne, New York, University Books, 1962, pp. XXI, 569, $62.

A Short History of Medicine, Charles Singer and E. Ashworth Underwood, 2nd ed., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962, pp. xvi+854, 21 Pl., 147 fig., 63s.

Die Vorgeschichte der Berufung von Edmund Lesser an die Charité, by M. Sturz Becher and G. Wagner, Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, 1962, pp. 87, 6 plates.

Ophthalmology by Burton Chance (Clio Medica series, vol. xx), New York, Hafner Publishing Co., 1962, pp. 240, 6 illus., 18s. 6d.

Gynecology and Obstetrics, by E. M. Jameson, New York and London, Hafner Publ. Co., 1962, pp. 170, 5 illus., 18s. 6d.

K. W. Monsarrat, A Tribute on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, privately printed, 1962, pp. 78, 2 ilus.

Some Human Oddities: Studies in the Queer, the Uncanny and the Fanatical, pp.198; and Very Peculiar People: Portrait Studies in the Queer, the Abnormal and the Uncanny, pp. 223, by E. J. Dingwall, New York, University Books, 1962, $6 each.

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