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Volume 28 - 1984

Book Review

Michael Drake (editor), Population studies from parish registers. A selection of readings from Local Population Studies, Matlock, Derbys., Local Population Studies, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 220, £5.95 (paperback).

Sergio Sconocchia (editor), Scribonii Largi Compositiones, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1983, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 130, M. 38.00.

James Watt, E. J. Freeman, and W. F. Bynum (editors), Starving sailors. The influence of nutrition upon naval and maritime history, London, National Maritime Museum, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiv, 212, illus., £5.95 +postage (paperback).

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MDH volume 28 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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John K. Crellin, Medical care in pioneer Illinois, Springfield, The Pearson Museum, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 128, $15.95.

Othmar Keel, La généalogie de l'histopathologie. Une révision déchirante. Philippe Pinel, lecteur discret de J.-C. Smyth (1741–1821), Paris, Vrin, 1979, 8vo, pp. ii, 135 +facsimile, [no price stated].

London Feminist History Group, The sexual dynamics of history: men's power, women's resistance, London, Pluto Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 226, £4.95 (paperback).

Gaines M. Foster, The demands of humanity: army medical disaster relief, Washington DC, US Army Centre of Military History, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 188, illus., $5.00 (paperback).

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MDH volume 28 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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P. L. Thillaud, Les maladies et la médecine en pays basque nord à la fin de l'Ancien Régime (1690–1789), Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 228, illus., [no price stated] (paperback).

Franz-Josef Kuhlen, Zur Geschichte der Schmerz-, Schlar- und Betäubungsmittel in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, Bd 19), Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiv, 445, DM. 68.00 (paperback).

H. Grensemann (editor), Hippokratische Gynäkologie: die gynäkologischen Texte des Autors C nach den pseudohippokratischen Schriften De Muliebribus I, II und De Sterilibus, Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiv, 191, DM. 130.00.

Sharon Romm, The unwelcome intruder. Freud's struggle with cancer, New York, Praeger, 1983, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 164, illus., $19.95.

Barbara Melosh, The physician's hand. Work culture and conflict in American nursing, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. ix, 260, [no price stated].

Gwyn Macfarlane, Alexander Fleming. The man and the myth, London, Hogarth Press (Chatto & Windus), 1984, 8vo, pp. xv, 304, illus., £12.50.

Frederick SargentII, Hippocratic heritage. A history of ideas about weather and human health, New York and Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xlii, 581, illus., $65.00 ($25.00 paperback).

Peter Garnsey, C. R. Whittaker (editors), Trade and famine in classical antiquity, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume 8, Cambridge, 1983, 8vo, pp. 127, £12.50 (paperback). (Obtainable from Dr C. Austin, Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ.)

Sanjaya Lall, The multinational corporation, London, Macmillan, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 264, £6.95 paperback.

Leslie T. Morton, A medical bibliography (Garrison and Morton): an annotated checklist of texts illustrating the history of medicine, Aldershot, Hants, Gower Publishing Co., 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 1000, £45.00.

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