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Volume 12 - January 1968

Book Reviews

Our Ophthalmic Heritage,by Charles Snyder, London, J. & A. Churchill, 1967, pp. xii, 170, illus., £5.

Ärzte und Medizin in Afrika, by Ludwig Brandi, Pfaffenhofen /Ilm, Afrika Verlag, 1966, pp. 200, illus., DM. 9.80.

Anesthesia from Colonial Times: A History of Anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania, by James E. Eckenhoff, Montreal and Philadelphia, J. P. Lippincott; London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., 1966, pp. 95, illus., 35s.

Medical Education: The Queen's-Rutgers Experience, 1792–1830, by David L. Cowen, New Brunswick, New Jersey, State University Bicentennial Commission and the Rutgers Medical School, 1966, pp. vii, 54, gratis.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, by Ilza Veith, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1966, pp. 260, illus., $8.00.

The Royal Apothecaries by Lesle G. Marrhews, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1967, pp. xiv, 191, illus., 25s.

Pharmacology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, by Chalmers L. Gemmill and Mary Janne Jones, Charlottesville, University of Virginia, 1966, pp. 134, ports., $3.00.

The Development of Medicine as a Profession, by Vern L. Bullough, Basel, S. Karger, 1966, pp. viii, 125, S.Fr./DM. 29.

Sword of Pestilence. The New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853, by John Duffy, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1966, pp. xiv, 191, illus., $5.00.

Médicos Españoles, by Luis S[Anchez] Granjel,* (Estudios de Historia de la Medicina Española, I), Salamanca, Gráficas Cervantes, 1967, pp. 374, illus., no price stated.

Geschichte der medizinischen Fakultät. Die Fröhgeschichte 1665–1840, by Heinrich Schipperges (Geschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universitiit Kiel 1665-1965), Neumiinster, K. Wachholtz, 1967, pp. 188, illus., no price stated.

Descriptive Catalogue of the Pathological Series in the Hunterian Museum of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Part I, Edinburgh and London, E. ' S. Livingstone, 1966, pp. xii, 288, illus., 84s.

The Origins of Chemistry, by Robert P. Multhauf, London, Oldbourne, 1967, pp. 412, illus., 70s.

Theorie von der Generation in zwei Abhandlungen erklärt und bewiesen Theoria Generationis, by C. F. Wolff, reprint with an introduction by R. Herrlinger, Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966, pp. 148, illus., DM.66,80.

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Der Bonner Privatdozent Wenzel Krimer. Zur Frühgeschichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Medizin des 19. Jahrhunderts, by Egon Schmitz-Cliever, (Academica Bonnensia, Band 2), Bonn, L. Röhrscheich Verlag, 1966, pp. 71, illus., DM.12.

Geschichte der Fusspflege, by Bruno Valentin, Stuttgart, Georg Thieme, 1966, pp. 103, illus., DM. 19.80.

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MDH volume 12 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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U.S. Army in World War II: The Medical Department; Medical Service in the Mediterranean and Minor Theaters, by Charles M. Wiltse Washington, D.C., Department of the Army, 1966, pp. xxvi, 664, illus., $5.00.

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