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Volume 25 - 1981

Book Review

John A. Shepherd, A history of the Liverpool Medical Institution, Liverpool Medical Institution, 1979, 8vo, pp. xi, 319, illus., £6.50.

Helen Turner, Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy, London, The Wellcome Trust and Heinemann, 1980, 8vo, pp. vii, 96, illus., £7 · 95.

Charles Lyte, Sir Joseph Banks: eighteenth-century explorer, botanist, and entrepreneur, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1980, 8vo, pp. 248, illus., £10.50.

Ursula Weisser (editor), “Buch über Geheimnis der Schöpfung und die Darstellung der Natur” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana, Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1979, 4to, pp. xiii, 66, 702, $15.00 (paperback).

Paul McHugh, Prostitution and Victorian social reform, London, Croom Helm, 1980, 8vo, pp. 306, £12.95.

Zvi Razi, Life, marriage and death in a medieval parish. Economy, society and demography in Halesowen 1270–1400, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvi, 162, £12.00.

Ian Levitt and Christopher Smout, The state of the Scottish working class in 1843, Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. x, 284, illus., £7.50.

V. E. Lloyd Hart, John Wilkes and the Foundling Hospital at Aylesbury, Aylesbury, Bucks., HM + M Publishers, 1979, 8vo, pp. 79, illus., £5.00.

Ursula Weisser, Das “Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana, (Ars Medica, Abt. III, Bd. 2), Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1980, 8vo, pp. xl, 258, DM. 180.00/$15.00.

Thomas E. Conejr., History of American pediatrics, Boston, Mass., Little, Brown, 1979, 4to, pp. xiv, 278, illus., $18.95.

T. S. Pensabene, The rise of the medical practitioner in Victoria, Canberra, Australian National University, 1980, 8vo, pp. xiii, 219, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

J. F. Healy, Mining and metallurgy in the ancient world, London, Thames & Hudson, 1978, 8vo, pp. 316, illus., £11.00.

Franz Köcher, Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Band V: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive 1, pp. xliii, plates 123, 1979; Band VI: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive 2, pp. xl, plates 175, 1980. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, DM.360.00.

Peter Davis, The social context of dentistry, London, Croom Helm, 1980, 8vo, pp. 189, £10.95.

David Thomas, Naturalism and social science. A post-empiricist philosophy of social science, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 8vo, pp. vii, 213, £12.50 (£4.95 paperback).

Stephen T. Anning, The history of medicine in Leeds, Leeds, W. S. Maney, 1980, 8vo, pp. ix, 218, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

Carlo M. Cipolla, I pidocchi e il Granduca, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1979, 8vo, pp. 113, L. 5,000 (paperback)

William A. Dando, The geography of famine, London, Edward Arnold, 1980 8vo, pp. xii, 209, illus., £12.50.

Michael Howell and Peter Ford, The true history of the elephant man, London, Penguin Books, 1980, 8vo, pp. 223, illus., £1.25 (paperback).

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