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Volume 6 - January 1962

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La Storia della Medicina Maya, by Teodoro Pennacchia, Pisa, Scientia Veterum, 1960, pp. 160.

Claude Bernard, Einfuhrung in das Studium der experimentellen Medizin (Paris 1865), translated by DrPaul Szendrö, with introduction and notes by Professor Karl E. Rothschuh, Sudhoff's Klassiker der Medizin, vol. xxxv, Leipzig, J. A. Barth, 1960, 350 pp., port., DM 12.80.

Daniel Drake (1785–1852); Pioneer Physician of the Midwest.Emmet Field HorineM.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1961). Pp. 425, with 35 plates. $6.oo.

The Evolution of Medical Practice in Britain. Edited by F. N. L. Poynter. London: Pitman Medical Publishing Co. Ltd., 1961; pp. vi+ 168. 25s.

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The Toadstool Millionaires. James Harvey-Young, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1961, pp. 282.

Préface d'André Vésale à ses Livres sur l'Anatomie, suivie d'une Lettre à Jean Oporinus, son Imprimeur, texte introduit, établi, et annoté par Louis Bakelants, Brussels, Editions Arscia S.A., 1961, 87 pp., frontis.

Unvollendete. Paul Diepgen. Stuttgart: G. Theime Verlag, 1960; pp. 223.

A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. John F Fulton. Second edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961: pp. xxvi+218, port., front., 26 illus. £2 10s.

David Edwardes Introduction to Anatomy 1532. A facsimile reproduction with English translation and an Introductory Essay on Anatomical Studies in Tudor England by C. D. O'Malley and K. F. Russell, London, Oxford University Press, 1961, 64 pp.,15s.

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A Short History of Clinical Pathology. W. D. Foster. Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1961; PP. xii+154. Illustrated. 27s. 6d.

Orthopaedia. Nicholas Andry. Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition in English, London 1743. 2 vols. Philadelphia and Montreal: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1961.

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MDH volume 6 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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William Harvey: Englishman. Kenneth J. Franklin. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1961; pp. 133. Illust, Col. front. 21s.

Great Moments in Medicine, a collection of the first thirty stories and paintings in the continuing series A History of Medicine in Pictures, George A Bender; paintings by Robert A. Thom, Detroit, Parke-Davis, 1961, 275 pp., 30 col. plates.

A History of Thoracic Surgery. R. Meade. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1961; pp. 933. £11.

Famous Faces in Diabetes. Cecil Striker. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1961; pp. 256.

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MDH volume 6 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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A Select Bibliography of Medical Biography, compiled by John L. Thornton, Audrey J. Monk, and Elaine S. Brooke, London (Library Association bibliographies, No. 3.), 1961, 112 pp., 27s. 6d. (20s. 6d. to Members of the Library Association).

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