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Volume 7 - July 1963

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Historia de la Medicina, M. Zuniga Cisneros, Caracas-Madrid, Ediciones Edime, 1960, pp. 587.

Galen: On Anatomical Procedures: the Later Books, translated by W. L. H. Duckworth, London, Cambridge University Press, 1962, pp. 279, 40s.

Early American Medical Imprints. A Guide to Works Printed in the United States 1668–1820, by Robert B. Austin, Washington, D.C., National Library of Medicine, 1961, pp. 240, $1.00.

The Journal of James Yonge, Plymouth Surgeon, edited by F. N. L. Poynter, London, Longmans, 1963, pp. 247, 8 plates, 35s.

A History of Medicine, vol. II: Early Greek, Hindu, and Persian Medicine by Henry F. Sigerist, London, Oxford University Press, 1961, pp. 333, 75s.

Das Medizinische Weltbild des Paracelsus—Seine Zusammenhänge mit Neuplatonismus und Gnosis, Walter Pagel, Band I of Kosmosophie, with a brief account of the purpose of this series by the editor, Kurt Goldammer, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1962, pp. xii, 136, illus., DM. 29.20.

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A History of Chemistry, vol. III, by J. R. Partington, London, Macmillan and Co., 1962, pp. xxiii, 854, 71 ilus., £6 6s.

American Medical Bibliography, 1639-1783, by F. Guerra, New York, Lathrop Harper (Publication No. 40, Department of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University), 1962, pp. 885, 187 plates, 10 gns.

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The London: A Study in the Voluntary Hospital System, vol. I, 1740–1840, by A. E. Clark-Kennedy, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co. Ltd., 1962, pp. 264, 30s.

William Harvey, Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy, an Annotated Translation of Praelectiones Anatomiae Universalis,by C. D. O'Malley, F. N. L. Poynter, K. F. Russell, University of California Press (Cambridge University Press), 1961, pp. VI, 239, col. port, 64s.

Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors, by John L. Thornton and R. I. J. Tully, 2nd revised edition, London, The Library Association , 1962, pp. 406, illus, 68s. (51s. to members of the L.A.)

Dr. Timothie Bright (1550–1615): A Survey of His Life with a Bibliography of his Writings, by Geoffrey Keynes KT., London, The Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962, pp. 47, 17 plates, 21s.

Readings in Pharmacy, edited by Paul A. Doyle, New York and London, Interscience Publishers, 1962, pp. X, 429, 49s.

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MDH volume 7 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Medicine and The Navy, 1200–1900, volume IV, 1815–1900, by Christopher Lloyd and Jack L. S. Coulter, London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1963, pp. 300, 13 illus.,50s.

A Biobibliography of Florence Nightingale,compiled by the late W. J. BishopF.L.A. and completed by Sue Goldie, B.A. Oxon, London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1962, pp. 160, 15 illUS., 50s.

A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by Isaac Ray, edited by Winfred Overholser, Cambridge, Mass., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. XVII+376.

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