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Volume 33 - 1989

Articles

Sleepers awake: Thomas Moffet's challenge to the College of Physicians of London, 1584

Wet-nurses in early modern England: Some evidence from the Townshend archive

Obituaries

RENATE R. A. BURGESS (1910–1988)

Articles

“Barbadoes leg”: Filariasis in Barbados, 1625–1900

The Letters

Letter no. 1 – Letter no. 40

Articles

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. A Polish rabbi's circumcision manual

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Thomas Corbyn, Quaker merchant

Obituaries

IAIN MALCOLM LONIE (1932–1988)

The Letters

Letter no. 41 – Letter no. 99

Articles

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The National Birthday Trust Fund records in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Appendix

Calendar of Sharpey-Thomson letters and associated correspondence in Glasgow University Library

Index

Index

Book Reviews

Benno Muller-Hill, Murderous science: elimination by scientific selection of Jews, Gypsies, and others: 1933–1945, trans. George Fraser, Oxford, New York, and Tokyo, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvi, 208, £15.00.

Vivian Nutton, From Democedes to Harvey: studies in the history of medicine (Collected Studies series; CS 277), London, Variorum Reprints, 1988, pp. xi, 323, £32.00.

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Sander Gilman, Disease and representation. Images of illness from madness to AIDS, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xiv, 320, illus., $37.50 (cloth), $13.95 (paperback).

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Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the air-pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer, Princeton University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xiv, 440, illus., £43.00.

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Obituaries

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News, Notes, and Queries

Appendix

Index

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