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Volume 38 - October 1994

Book Reviews

Ulfried Geuter, The professionalization of psvchology in Ncizi Germany, transl. Richard J. Holmes, Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xxi, 335, £35.00, $54.95 (0-521-33297-4).

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Index of Dentists

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Michael J. Aminoff, Brown-Séquard: a visionary of science, New York, Raven Press, 1993, pp. xii, 211, illus., $85.00 (0-88167-956-9).

Saul Jarcho, Quinine's predecessor: Francesco Torti and the early history of cinchona, The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. xviii, 354, illus., £45.00 (0-8018-4466-5).

R. Graham Lilly, An account of rural medical practice from the 18th century onwards in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, Dunton Bassett, Volcano Publishing, 1993, pp. 95, illus., £3.25 (1–870127–99–4).

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Index of Surgeons and other Medical Men

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Galen, On semen, ed., transl. and commentary by Phillip De Lacy, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, 5, 3, 1, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 1992, pp. 291, DM 220.00 (3-05-001863-1).

James Longrigg, Greek rational medicine: philosophy and medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. ix, 296, £35.00 (0–415–02594–X).

Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in history: the cultures of dependence, London and New York, Routledge, 1993, pp. xi, 280, £40.00 (0-415-04963).

Evan M. Melhado and Tore Frängsmyr (eds), Enlightenment science in the Romantic era: the chemistry of Berzelius and its cultural setting, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xiv, 246, £30.00, $49.95 (0-521-41775-9).

Horace W. Davenport, A history of gastric secretion and digestion: experimental studies to 1975, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press for the American Physiological Society, 1992, pp. xvii, 414, illus., £60.00 (0-19-507393-2).

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Eugene Perry Link, The social ideas of American physicians (1776–1976): studies of the humanitarian tradition in medicine, Selinsgrove, Susquehanna University Press, and London and Toronto, Associated University Presses, 1993, pp. 317, illus., £40.00 (0-945636-34-2).

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Index of Patients and Others

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Rosalba Davico (ed.), The autobiography (40 Edvt ard Jarniis (1803–1884), Medical History, Supplement No. 12, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1992, pp. xli, 162, £23.00, $38.00 (0-85484-115-6).

Jacqueline Jenkinson, Scottish medical societies, 1731–1939: their history and records, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 237, £37.50 (0-7486-0390-5).

Adam J. Hirsch, The rise of the penitentiary: prisons and punishment in early America, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992, pp. xvi, 243, £20.00, $35.00 (0-300-04297-3).

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Index of Medical Conditions

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Ove Hagelin (comp.), Rare and important medical books in the library ofthe Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Karolinska Institutet Bibliotek, 1992, pp. 212, illus., SEK 400 (91-88194-027).

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