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An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 28 - 1984

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A death from inoculated smallpox in the English Royal Family

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IV Medicine and ideology: the methodology and epistemology of the sensationalists

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The introduction of a new sixteenth-century drug: terra Silesiaca

A medical case book: Leeds, 1781–84

The history of leprosy in Ethiopia to 1935

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The new lazaretto at Siros (Syra), Greece, in 1840 *

An unknown Hebrew medical alchemist: a medieval treatise on the quinta essentia

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V How to study life: Bichat's method

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The origin of the Wellcome anatomical waxes. Albinus and the Florentine collection at La Specola *

Haslam of “Bedlam”, Kitchiner of the “Oracles”: two doctors under mad King George III, and their friendship

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VI The forces of life and the causes of death

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: Iconography of Dr William Kitchiner (1775?–1827)*

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: A Jewish physician in the seventeenth century *

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VII The living elements

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