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Volume 27 - Issue 2 - April 1983

Book Review

Francois Duchesneau, La physiologie des lumières. Empiricisme, modèles et théories, The Hague, Boston, and London, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxi, 511, Dfl. 1 85.00/$97.00.

Antoine Thivel, Cnide et Cos? Essai sur les doctrines medicales dans la Collection Hippocratique, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1981, 8vo, pp. 435, [no price stated], (paperback).

Richard Y. Meier (compiler), The Joseph H. Kiefer catalog of history of urology and medicine, Chicago, Library of the Health Sciences, University of Illinois, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 207, illus., $25.00 ($ 10.00 paperback).

Arthur Rook and Rodney Dawber, Diseases of the hair and scalp, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1982, 8vo, pp. ix, 571, illus., [no price stated].

John C. Sheehan, The enchanted ring. The untold story of penicillin, Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvi, 224, illus., £10.50.

John A. Ross, A medical student in Paris in 1832: an eyewitness account of the year of the cholera pandemic, Stamford, Lincs., Scientific Era Publications, 1981, 4to, pp. iv, 1 14, illus., £5.25 + 75p postage.

Philip M. Teigen (editor), Books, manuscripts, and the history of medicine. Essays on the 50th anniversary of the Osler Library, New York, Science History Publications, 1982, 8vo, pp. [viii], 112, $14.95.

J. R. K. Robson (editor), Food, ecology and culture. Readings in the anthropology of dietary practices, New York, Gordon & Breach Science Publishers, 1981, 8vo, pp. ix, 143, illus., $30.25.

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