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Volume 8 - October 1964

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History of Modern Nursingby R.N. Lena Dixon Dietz, Philadelphia, F. A. Davis Co., 1963, pp. 365, illus., 56s.

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A History of Nursing From Ancient to Modern Times. A world view, 5th edition, by Isabel M. Stewart and Anne L. Austin, New York, G. Putnam's, 1962, pp. 516, 56s.

The Black Hole and Other Essays, by Macdonald Critchley, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., 1964, pp. X, 288, 40s.

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Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt, Paul Ghalioungui, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1963, pp. xvi, 189, illus., 30s.

Avicenna's Poem on Medicine, ed. by Haven C. Krueger and R. H. Major, Springfield, Ill., C. C. Thomas, 1963, pp. 112, $5.00.

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World Health and History,by W. Hobson, Bristol, John Wright, 1963, PP. xii, 252,45s.

Medical Department, United States Army, Surgery in World War II: Thoracic Surgery, vol. I, Editor in Chief, Colonel John Boyd CoatesJr., MC., Editor for Thoracic Surgery, F. B. Berry, Washington, D.C., Office of the Surgeon General, 1963, pp. 394, illus., $4.25.

Der Systematische Katalog in Institutsbibliotheken am Beispiel der Medizinhistorik, by Gunter Mann, Frankfurt, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e.V., 1962, pp. 24, illus., DM. 2.50.

Galen on the Passions and Errors of the Soul, translated by P. W. Harkins with an introduction and interpretation by W. Riese, Ohio State University Press, 1964, pp. 136, $4-75.

Joseph Lister, the man who made surgery safe, by Frederick F. Cartwright, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson (Educational) Ltd., Pathfinder Biographies, 1963, pp. 128, 13 illus., 10s. 6d.

Aldrovandi on Chickens: The Ornithology of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1600), vol. ii, Bk xiv, translated and edited by L. R. Lind, University of Oklahoma Press, 1963, pp. xxxvi, 447, illus., $6.95.

A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatic Diseases, by W. S. C. Copeman, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press (London, Cambridge University Press), 1964, pp. xi, 236, illus., $6.

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Medical History from the Earliest Times (Reprint of 1894 edition), by Edward Theodore Withington, London, The Holland Press, 1964, pp. viii, 424, 63s ($10.00).

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