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Volume 7 - July 1963

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Paracelsus-Bibliographie, 1932–1960. Mit einem Verzeichnis neu entdeckter Paracelsus-Handschriften (1900–1960) by Karl-Heinz Weimann, Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner, 1963, pp. xii, 100, DM. 18.

Histoire de la Médecine et du Livre Médical á la Lumiére des Collections de la Bibliothéque de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, by André Hahn, Paule Dumaître, and Janine Samion-Contet, Paris, Editions Olivier Perrin, 1962, pp. 433, 263 illus. (8 col.), 102 NF.

Matthaus Mederer von Mederer und Wuthwehr, edited by Ernst Theodor Nauk, (Sudhoffs Klassiker der Medizin), Leipzig, Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1961, pp. 72, port., illus., DM.4.90.

Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement, by James H. Cassedy, Harvard Univ. Press, and London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1962, pp. 310, frontis., 46s.

The Origin of Medical Terms, by Henry Alan Skinner, second edition, Baltimore, The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1961, pp. x, 437, illus., $12.50.

The Cholera rears. The United States in 1812, 1849 and s866, by Charles E. Rosenberg, Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago Press, 1962, pp. 257, $7.50.

Bibliography of Medico-Legal Works in English, Robert P. Brittain, London, Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., 1962, pp. 252, £2 12s. 6d.

Din Istoria Medicini Roministi si Universale, edited by V. L. Bologa, Bucharest, Editura Academiei Republica Populare Romine, 1962, pp. 517, no price given.

Fourcroy, Chemist and Revolutionary (1755-1809), by W. A. Smeaton, Cambridge, printed for the author by Heffer & Sons, 1962, pp. XXI+288, 40s.

Medicines for the Union Army. The United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War, by George Winston Smith, Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1962, pp. VII+ 119, 8 illus. $2.75.

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Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases, by William HeberdenM.D., facsimile of London 1802 edition, with preface by Paul Klemperer (History of Medicine series, no. 18), New York, Hafner Publishing Co., 1962, pp. 483, $3.00.

Louisiana Swamp Doctor; The Life and Writings of Henry Clay Lewis, edited by John Q. Anderson, Louisiana State University Press, 1962, pp. 296, 8 illus., $5.00.

A Short History of the Royal Society Club of Edinburgh, 1820 to 1962, by Douglas Guthrie, Edinburgh, published privately for the Royal Society Club, 1963, pp. 40, illus., 10s. (obtainable from the Secretary, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, Edinburgh).

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Histoire de la Zoologie des Origines d Linné, by Georges Petit and Jean Thaodoridas, Paris, Hermann, 1962, pp. XII, 360, 24 plates, 18 NF.

History of Pharmacy in Britain, by Leslie G. Matthews. Edinburgh and London, E. and S. Livingstone, 1962, pp. 427, 45s.

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