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Volume 28 - 1984

Book Review

Arnold S. Trebach, The heroin solution, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvi, 331, £16.95.

Walter Pagel, The smiling spleen: Paracelsianism in storm and stress, Basle, Karger, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 214, illus., SFr.153.00.

Emil Kraepelin, Lebenserinnerungen, edited by H. Hippius, G. Peters, and D. Ploog, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, Springer, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiii, 290, DM. 39.00.

J. Büttner (editor), History of clinical chemistry, Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1983, 4to, pp. 91, illus., DM. 98.00.

Jean Cantlie Stewart, The quality of mercy. The lives of Sir James and Lady Cantlie, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp. vii, 277, illus., £9.95.

Nancy E. Gallagher, Medicine and power in Tunisia, 1780–1900, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiv, 145, illus., £19.50.

John Fry, Lord Hunt of Fawley, and R. J. F. H. Pinsent (editors), A history of the Royal College of General Practitioners. The first 25 years, London, MTP Press, 1983, 8vo. pp. xiii, 270, illus., £9.95.

Karl Hufbauer, The formation of the German chemical community (1720–1795), Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 312, illus., £34.00 (£12.75 paperback).

Nelly Tsouyopoulos, Andreas Röschlaub und die Romantische Medizin. Die philosophischen Grundlagen der modernen Medizin, (Medizin in Geschichte und Kultur, ed. K. E. Rothschuh and R. Toellner, vol. 14), Stuttgart and New York, Fischer, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 259, DM. 58.00 (paperback).

Joannes Morsink, Aristotle on the generation of animals. A philosophical study, Washington DC, University Press of America; London, Eurospan, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 184, £20.75 (£9.75 paperback).

William Rey Arney, Power and the profession of obstetrics, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 290, £20.00.

Manfred Ijllmann (editor), Die Schrift des Rufus von Ephesos über die Gelbsucht, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983, 8vo, pp. 87, illus., DM.60.00 (paperback).

Jean Guillermand (editor), Histoire de la médecine aux armées, tome 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution, Paris, Editions Lavauzelle, 1983, 4to, pp. xii, 511, illus., Fr. 495.00.

Horace W. Davenport, Physiology 1850–1923. The view from Michigan, (Supplement to The Physiologist, vol. 24, no. 1, February 1982, 4to, pp. vii, 96, illus., $25.00.

John Farley, Gametes and spores. Ideas about sexual reproduction 1750–1914, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 299, £24.50.

Renate Smollich, Der Bisamapfel in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 342, illus., DM 58.00 (paperback).

Richard Sorabji, Time, creation and the continuum, London, Duckworth, 1983, 8vo, pp. xviii, 471, £29.50.

Patrice Cugnetti, L'Hôpital de Grenoble des origines à la fin du Second Empire (Xlème siècle – 1870), Grenoble, Editions du Centre de Recherche d'Histoire Economique, Sociale et Institutionelle, 1980, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. 865, [no price stated], (paperback).

Carole Haber, Beyond sixty-five. The dilemma of old age in America's past, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. ix, 181, £17.50.

Harry F. Dowling, City hospitals: the undercare of the underprivileged, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 245, £18.00.

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