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Volume 23 - October 1979

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George E. Giffordjr.(editor), Psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the New England medical scene 1894–1944, New York, Science History Publications, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 438, illus., $35.00 ($28.00 paperback).

Wesley W. Spink, Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Folkestone, Dawson, 1978, 8vo, pp. xx, 577, illus., 22.50.

Richard W. BurkhardtJr., The spirit of system: Lamarck and evolutionary biology, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. [xii], 285, illus., £11.55.

Peter Razzell, The conquest of smallpox. The impact of inoculation on smallpox mortality in eighteenth-century Britain, Firle, Sussex, Caliban Books, 1977, 8vo, pp. x, 190, £8.00.

Ruth Hall(editor), Dear Dr. Stopes. Sex in the 1920s. Letters to Marie Stopes, London, Deutsch, 1978, 8vo, pp. 218, £6.50.

Robert S. Gottfried, Epidemic disease infifteenth-century England. The medical response and the demographic consequences, Leicester University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xiv, 262, £10.00.

SirJ. William Dawson, Modern ideas of evolution, New York, Science History Publications, 1977, 8vo, pp. xxv, 240 [facsimile], $4.95 (paperback).

Gerald W. Hartwig and K. David Patterson (editors), Disease in African history, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xiv, 258, $13.75.

Charles De Mertens, An account of the plague which raged at Moscow 1771, [facsimile of 1799 ed., with introduction by John Alexander], Newtonviile, Mass., Oriental Research Partners, 1977, 8vo, pp. 39, v, 127, [no price stated].

Henry Cornelius Agrippa, His fourth book of occult philosophy, facsimile of 1655 edition, with introduction by Stephen Skinner, London, Askin Publishers, 1978, 8vo, pp. xvi, 217 [facsimile], illus., limited leatherbound edition, [no pricestated].

Allen G. Debus, The chemical philosophy. Paracelsian science and medicine in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, New York, Science History Publications; Edinburgh University Press, 1977, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xv, 606, illus., $60.00.

Richard D. Altick, The shows of London. A panoramic history of exhibitions, 1600–1862, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978, 4to, pp. [x], 553, illus., £19.75.

George M. Foster and Barbara Gallatin Anderson, Medical anthropology, Chichester, John Wiley, 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 354, £9.75

E. J. R. Burrough, Unity in diversity. The short life ofthe United Oxford Hospitals, Abingdon, [privately printed for the author by Burgess], 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 282, £4.95.

Gamini Salgado, The Elizabethan underworld, London, Dent, 1977, 8vo, pp. 221, illus., £5.50.

Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones, Atlas of world population history, Harmondsworth, Middx., Penguin Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. 368, illus., £1.75 (paperback).

G. Melvyn Howe(editor), A world geography of human diseases, London and New York, Academic Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 621, illus., £24.00.

Jane O'Hara-May, Elizabethan Dyetary of health, Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. 415, illus., $18.50.

Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers(editors), Sickness and health in America. Readings in the history of medicine andpublic health, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, 4to, pp. ix, 454, £6.30 (paperback).

William Baker, The George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Library. An annotated catalogue of their books at Dr. Williams's Library, London, New York and London,Garland Publishing, 1977, 8vo, pp. lxix, 300, illus., $35.00.

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