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Volume 14 - October 1970

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Idle Thoughts of a Surgical Fellow, by Stacey B. Day. Montreal, Cultural and Educational Productions, 1968, pp. 344, illus., £5 10s. Od.

A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, ed. by Trevor I. Williams, London, A. & C. Black, 1969, pp. xi, 592, £5.

Raspail, Scientist and Reformer, by Dora B. Weiner, with a chapter by Simone Raspail, New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1968, pp. xiv, 336, illus., $11.00.

The Essential Writings of Erasmus Darwin, chosen and edited with a linking commentary by Desmond King-Hele, London, McGibbon & Kee, 1968, pp. 223, illus., 45s.

The Operator for the Teeth, by Charles Allen, reprint of 1685 edition with a new introduction by R. A. Cohen (limited edition of 250 numbered copies), London, Dawsons, 1969, pp. x, 22, illus., £10 l0s. Od.

The Diary of Richard Kay (1716–51), a Lancashire Doctor, ed. by W. Brockbank and F. Kenworthy, Manchester, University of Manchester Press for the Chetham Society, 1968, pp. vii, 179, illus., 50s.

Selected Papers of Edmund Bergler, M.D. 1933–1961, ed. by M. Bergler, New York and London, Grune & Stratton, 1969, pp. x, 981, no price stated.

A Surgeon in the Early Nineteenth Century: the Life and Times of John Green Crosse, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S. (1790–1850), by V. Mary Crosse, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1968, pp. xii, 210, illus., 40s.

Intemeietorul Anatomiei Moderne Andreas Vesalius by Mihm Ionescu, Tirgu-Mures, Directia Sanitaria a Judetului Mures, Serviciul de Educatie Sanitaria, 1969, pp. 66, illus.

A History ofMedicine in South Carolina, 1825–1900, by Joseph I. Waring, Charleston, South Carolina Medical Association, 1967, pp. xv, 366, illus., $7.70.

Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum, ed. by G. H. M. Lawrence, et al. Pittsburgh, Hunt Botanical Library, 1968, pp. 1063, $30,00.

Volksmedizin. Probleme und Forschungsgeschichte, ed. by Elfrmde Grabner (Wege der Forschung, Band 63), Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967, pp. viii, 575, illus., DM.60.

Prelude to Fame: Crawford Long's Discovery of Anaesthesia, by Ruby L. Radford, Los Altos, California, Geron-X Inc., 1969, pp. 175, illus., $4.95.

A Medical Journey in California by Dr. Pierre Garnierintroduced and annotated by Doyce B. NunisJr, and translated by L. Jay Oliva, Los Angeles, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1967, pp. xii, 93, illus., $12.50.

Sir Walter Scott: the Wounded Falcon, by SirArthur S. Macnalty, London, Johnson, 1969, pp. 189, illus., 35s.

Schiff und Seuche 1795–1799. Ein medizinischer Beitrag zur historischen Kenntnis der Gesundheitsverhältnisse an Bord dänisch-norwegischer Kriegsschiffe auf den Fahrten nach Dänisch-Westindien, by ØVind Larsen, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1968, pp. 267, illus., N.kr. 48.

L'Enseignement de la Médecine en France des Origines à nos Jours, by Charles Coury (Collection ‘Monographies de la Chaire d'Histoire de la Médecine’), Paris, L'Expansion scientifique française, 1968, pp. 200, no price stated.

The Dawn of Australian Psychiatry, by John Bostock, Sydney, Australasian Publishing Co. (for Australian Medical Association), 1968, pp. 219, illus., $A4.50.

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The Doctor on the Stage: Medicine and Medical Men in Seventeenth Century England, by Herbert Silverre, ed. by Francelia Butler, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1967, pp. viii, 290, $7.50.

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