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Volume 30 - 1986

Book Review

Claude Bernard, Memoir on the pancreas and on the role of pancreatic juice in digestive processes, translated by John Henderson, London, Academic Press, 1985, 4to, pp. x, 131, illus., [no price stated].

Richard B. Sheridan, Doctors and slaves. A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies, 1680–1834, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxii, 420, £25.00.

Pietro Corsi, Oltre il mito: Lamarck e le scienze naturali del suo tempo, Bologna, II Mulino, 1983, 8vo, pp. 432, L.30,000 (paperback).

Maine De Biran, Oeuvres: Tome V, Discours à la Société médicale de Bergerac, edited by François Azouvi, Paris, Vrin, 1984, pp. xv, 199, Fr.129.00; Tome VI,Rapports duphysiqueet du moral de l'homme, edited by F. C. T. Moore, Paris, Vrin, 1984, pp. xvi, 207, Fr.120.00.

Kitti Jurina, Vom Quacksalber zum Doctor Medicinae, Cologne and Vienna, Bohlau Verlag, 1984, 4to, pp. ix, 331, illus., DM. 168.00

Richard Pankhurst, The history of famine and epidemics in Ethiopia prior to the twentieth century, London Central Books (for Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Addis Ababa), 1986, 8vo, pp. 120, illus., £2.50 (paperback).

Antje Krug, Heilkunst und Heilkult. Medizin in der Antike, Munich, C.H. Beck, 1985,8vo, pp. 244, illus., DM.38.00 (paperback).

Urs Boschung, (editor), Johannes Gessners Pariser Tagebuch 1727, Berne, Hans Huber, 1985, 8vo, pp. 420, illus., S.Fr.62 00.

John D. French, Donald B. Lindsley, and H. W. Magoun, An American contribution to neuroscience: the Brain Research Institute, UCLA, 1959–1984, Los Angeles, University of California Brain Research Institute: UCLA Publication Service Department, 1984, 8vo, pp. vii, 325, illus., $37.50.

Allan M. Brandt, No magic bullet. A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. viii, 130, $19–95.

Leendert G. Westerink, (editor and translator), Stephanus of Athens, Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms, Sections 1-2, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum XI 1,3,1, Berlin DDR, Akademie Verlag, 1985, 8vo, pp. 257, M.78.00

James Thomas Flexner, An American saga: the story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner, Boston and Toronto, Little, Brown, 1984, 8vo, pp. xviii, 494, illus., $24.95.

Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald I. Numbers (editors), Sickness and health in America. Readings in the history of medicine and public health, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, 4to, pp. x, 550, $32.50 ($14.95 paperback).

Barbara Sicherman,Alice Hamilton. A life in letters, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xvi, 460, £20.00.

Peter Jordan, Schistosomiasis. The St Lucia project, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 442, illus., £35–00

Giambattista Morgagni, Clinical consultations, the edition of Enrico Benassi (1935) trans. and rev. by Saul Jarcho, Boston, Mass., Francis Countway Library of Medicine 1984, 8vo, pp. C, 450, $42.50 (distributed by Uniiversity Press of Virginia, Charlottesville).

Edward Babayan, The structure of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, New York, International Universities Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. ix, 336, illus., $40.00.

John Duffy, The Tulane University Medical Center: one hundred and fifty years of medical education, Baton Rouge and London, Louisiana State University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xiv, 253, illus., [no price stated].

L. Bolk, Desegmentale innervatie van romp en ledematen bijde mens, Utrecht, Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, 1985, 8vo, pp. xx, 158, illus., Dfl.39.50 (paperback).

Margaret Rowbottom and Charles Susskind, Electricity and medicine. History of their interaction, San Francisco, San Francisco Press; London, Macmillan, 1984, 8vo, pp. vii, 303, illus., £25.00.

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