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Volume 8 - October 1964

News, Notes and Queries

Sherrington—a Link Between Two Centuries: Correction (Med. Hist., 1964, VIII, 122–136)

Book Reviews

John Locke (1632–1704), Physician and Philosopher. A Medical Bibliography with an Edition of the Medical Notes in his Journals, by Kenneth Dewhurst, London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963, II plates, pp. xii, 331, 42s.

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International Academy of the History of Medicine

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Jonathan Goddard: Discourse concerning Physick and the Many Abuses thereof by Apothecaries, 1668: A Lost Work or a Ghost?

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Galeni in Hippocratis de Officina Medici Commentariorum, trans. by M. Lyons, Berlin Academy of Sciences, 1963, pp. 172, DM. 48.00.

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Australian Medical Association (Victoria Branch): Section of the History of Medicine

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Vesalian Exhibition

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The Salernitan Questions. An Introduction to the History of Medieval and Renaissance Problem Literature by Brian Lawn, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963, pp. xiv + 240, frontis., 63s.

The Growth of Medical Thoughtby Lester S King, Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1963, pp. 254, $5, 41s.

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Fiftieth Anniversary of the Formtion of the Australasian Medical Publishig Company

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The Evolution of Clinical Methods in Medicine, by Kenneth D. Keele, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., 1963, illus., pp. 115, 35s.

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Proceedings of the Section of Medical History in the Australian Medical Association (Victorian Branch)

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Science and the Renaissance: An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century, by W. P. D. Wightman (Aberdeen University Studies No. 143-4), Edinburgh and London, Oliver & Boyd, 1962, 2 vols., pp. xvi, 327; xix,293, illus., 42s. each volume.

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels 1514–1564, by C. D. O'Malley, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press (London, Cambridge University Press), 1964, pp. x, 480, 65 illus., $10, £4.

The Evolution of Psychiatry in Scotland, by SirDavid Kennedy Henderson, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1964, pp. viii, 300, 32s. 6d.

Sir John Simon 1816–1904 and English Social Administration, by Royston Lambert, London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1963, pp. 669, frontis., 63s.

Iconographia Boerhaavii edited by G. A. Lindeboom, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1963, pp. ix, 29, 40 plates, 32 guilders; Boerhaave's Correspondece, Part One, edited by G. A. Lindeboom, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1962, pp. X, 241, 30 guilders.

Janus in the Doorway, by Douglas Guthrie, illus., pp. xi, 316, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., 1963, pp. 316, 50s.

Richard Lower ‘De Catarrhis’, 1672, reproduced in facsimile and … translated, with a bibliographical analysis, by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1963, PP. xi [16], 29, 35s.

The General Infirmary at Leeds, vol.i, The First Hundred Years, 1767–1869by S. T. Anning, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1963, pp.xii + 107, 46 illustrations, 30s.

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