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Volume 6 - January 1962

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Disease and Destiny, a bibliography of medical references to the famous. By the late Judson Bennett Gilbert, with additions and an introduction by Gordon E. Mestler and a preface by Emerson Crosby Kelly. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1962: pp. 535. £6 10s.

Surgery is Destined to the Practice of Medicine. SirReginald Watson-Jones. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1961. pp. 81. 21s.

Purkynè-Symposion, edited by Rudolph Zaunick, Nova Acta Leopoldina, Bd. 24, No. 151, Leipzig, D. A. Barth, 1960, 230 pp., port., illus.

The Historical Development of British Psychiatry, vol. I, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Dennis LeighM.D., F.R.C.P., London, Pergamon Press, 1961, 277 pp., 70s.

The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuzwenhoek. Edited, illustrated and annotated by a Commission of Dutch Scientists. Vol. VI. Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger Ltd., 1961; pp. 12, 425; 34 plates. C8 15s. od.

Studies in Arabic and Persian Medical Literature. ProfessorMuhammad Zubayr Siddiqi. Calcutta University, 1959; pp. 173, 7 plates.

Arzt der Tyrannen, by Artur Swerr, München, Süddeutscher Verlag, 1961, 420 pp., DM 19.80.

Essays on the First Hundred Years of Anaesthesia (Vol. 2). W. Stanley Sykes. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1961; pp. 187. Illustrated. 30s.

The Famous Pathologist, or, The Noble Mountebank. Thomas Alcock and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. Ed. V. de Sola Pinto. Nottingham University Miscellany No. 1. Nottingham: Sisson & Parker, 1961, pp. 42: port., front. 5s.

Toward the Conquest of Beriberi. Robert R Williams. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1961; pp. xxii, 338.

Great Ideas in the History of Surgery, by Leo ZimmermanM.D. and Ilza VeithPh.D., London, Baillière, Tindall, and Cox, 587 pp., 115 illus., £6.

Karolinska Institutet: The Royal Medical School in Stockholm. Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell, 1960; pp. 102. Illustrated.

The Natural History of Quackery, by Eric Jameson, London, Michael Joseph, 1961, 224 pp., 25s.

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America's pre-Pharmacopoeial Literature. David L. Cowen. American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Madison, Wisconsin, 1961; pp. 40; illus. fascim. $1.OO

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