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Volume 29 - 1985

Book Review

Trevor I. Williams, Howard Florey. Penicillin and after, Oxford University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xvi, 404, illus., £17.50.

SirGordon Wolstenholme (editor), Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians (Munk's Roll), Oxford and Washington DC, IRL Press; vol. 6: 1966-75, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 505, illus., £25.00; vol. 7: 1976-83, 1984, 8vo, pp. xi, 646, illus., £35.00.

Frederick Burkhardt and Sydney Smith (editors), The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Volume 1 1821–1836, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxxix, 702, illus., £30.00.

Gerard L'E Turner, Nineteenth-century scientific instruments, London, Sotheby Publications; Berkeley, University of California Press, 1983, 4to, pp. 320, illus., £37.50.

Articles

Ischaemic heart disease, aortic aneurysms, and atherosclerosis in the City of London, 1868–1982

Book Review

Piero Camporesi, La came impassibile, Milan, Il Saggiatore, 1983, 8vo, pp. 300, L.25.000 (paperback).

Index

Index

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Timothy Lenoir, The strategy of life. Teleology and mechanics in nineteenth-century German biology, Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 314, illus., Dfl.135.00.

Juanita G.L. Burnby, A study ofthe English apothecary from 1660 to 1760, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Medical History Supplement number 3, 1983, 8vo, pp. [vi], 128, £9.00.

W. E. Heyningen and John R. Seal, Cholera. The American scientific experience 1947–80, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xvi, 343, illus., £24.00 (UK suppliers: Bowker Publishing Co., Epping, Essex).

Donald K. Grayson, The establishment of human antiquity, New York, Academic Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 262, illus., [no price stated].

Marie Boas Hall, All scientists now, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xii, 261, illus., £25.00.

T. Clifford Allbutt, Notes on the composition of scientific papers, London, Keynes Press (British Medical Association), 1984, 8vo, pp. 161, £35.00.

Front matter

MDH volume 29 supplement 5 front matter

Book Review

Giuliano Pancaldi, Darwin in Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1983, 8vo, pp. 294, L.25.000 (paperback). - Giuliano Pancaldi (editor), I congressi degli scienziati italiani nell' età delpositivismo, Bologna, Cooperativa Libreria Universitaria Editrice, 1983, 8vo, pp. 225, L.16.000.

Richard Allen Soloway, Birth control and the population question in England 1877–1930, Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xix, 418, £23.20.

Grahamtwigg, The Black Death: a biological reappraisal, London, Batsford, 1984, 8vo, pp. 254, illus., £14.95.

Herve Barreau et al. (editors), L'explication dans les sciences de la vie, Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983, 8vo, pp. 258, Fr.90.00 (paperback).

John Parascandola and Elizabeth Keeney, Sources in the history of American pharmacology, Madison, Wis., American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1983, 4to, pp. 59, [no price stated] (paperback).

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