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Volume 29 - 1985

Book Review

H. A. Snellen, Two pioneers of electrocardiography. The correspondence between Einthoven and Lewis from 1908–1925, Rotterdam, Donker, 1983, 8vo, pp. 140, illus., Dfl.55.00.

Charles Lichtenthaeler, Der Eid des Hippokrates, Ursprung und Bedeutung, Cologne, Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, 1984, 8vo, pp. 392, illus., DM148.00.

Istvan Benedek, Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis 1818–65, Vienna and Cologne, Böhlaus,1983, 8vo, pp. 398, Os.530.00/DM.70.00. - Istvan Benedek, Semmelweis' Krankheit, Budapest, Akademiai Kaido, 1983, 8vo, pp. 110, illus., £4.40.

Per-Gunnar Ottoson, Scholastic medicine and philosophy, Naples, Bibliopolis, 1984, 8vo, pp. 322, [no price stated] (paperback).

Otto Sonntag (editor), The correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Charles Bonnet, Berne, Stuttgart, and Vienna, Hans Huber, 1983, 8vo, pp. 1338, SFr. 278.00.

Mary A. B. Brazier, A history of neurophysiology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: from concept to experiment, New York, Raven Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. 239, $81.00.

François Lasserre and Phillippe Mudry (editors), Formes de pensée dans la collection hippocratique, Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1983, 8vo, pp. 541, [no price stated] (paperback).

Giuseppe Ongaro (editor), Leopoldo M.A. Caldani, Lazzaro Spallanzani. Carteggio (1768–98), Milan, Istituto Editoriale Cisalpino-La Goliardica, 1982, 8vo, pp. 419, illus., L.25.000 (paperback).

Leonardo da Vinci. Anatomical drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, (essays by C. Pedretti and K. Keele, catalogue by Keele and J. Roberts), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford, Blackwells, 1984, 4to, pp. 166, illus., £30.50.

Pamela Bright, Dr. Richard Bright (1789–1858), London, Bodley Head, 1983, 8vo, pp. 313, £12.95.

Hartmut ähndrich (editor and translator), Treatise to Salah ad-Din on the revival of the art of medicine by Ibn Jumay, Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 49 + facsimile, DM. 75.00 (paperback).

John E. Lesch, Science and medicine in France: the emergence of experimental physiology, 1790–1855, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. viii, 276, £20.00.

Franz Merke, History and iconography of endemic goitre and cretinism, translated by Dennis Q. Stephenson, Lancaster, MTP Press, 1984, 4to, pp. xi, 339, illus., £62.50.

Robert L. Richards, Dr John Rae, Whitby, Caedmon of Whitby Press, 1984, 8vo, pp. xii, 231, illus., £16.50.

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Mikulas Simon, Die soziale Stellung der Apotheker in der Zürcher Stadtgesellschaft in Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 298, illus., DM.42.00.

Karl E. Rothschuh, Naturheilbewegung, Reformbewegung, Alternativebewegung, Stuttgart, Hippokrates Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. 148, illus., DM.58.00.

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A. J. C. Mayne, Fever, squalor and vice. Sanitation and social policy in Victorian Sydney, St Lucia, London, and New York, University of Queensland Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xviii, 263, illus., $34.50.

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