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Volume 9 - January 1965

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Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art by R. Klibansky, E. Panofsky and F. Saxl, London, Nelson, 1964, pp. xviii, 429, Front., 146 illus. on plates, 5 text illus., £6 6s.

The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Its First Centenary 1862–1962, by Robert S. Henry, Washington, D.C., Office of the Surgeon-General of the Army, 1964, pp. 422 + xxi, illust., $4.25.

A History of Electrocardiography, E. Burch and Nicholas P. Depasquale, Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1964, pp. 309, illus., 75s.

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The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

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Lebensbilderbuch eines Nervenarztes, by I. H. Schultz, Stuttgart, Thieme, 1964, pp. xii, 166, DM 25.

The Hospitals 1800–1948, by Brian Abel-Smith, London, Heinemann, 1964, pp. xiii, 514, 50s.

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The Norwegian Society for the History of Medicine

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Histoire de la Médecine, by Maurice Bariéty and Charles Coury, Paris, Fayard, 1963, pp. 1217, Fr. 49.50.

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Section of the History of Medicine Royal Irish Academy of Medicine

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Doctors Monro, by R. E. Wright-St. Clair, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Historical Monograph No. 4, 1964, pp. 190, 30s.

Die Assimilation der arabischen Medizin durch das lateinische Mittelalter, by Heinrich Schipperges, (Sudhoffs Arch. Gesch. Med., Suppl. 3), Wiesbaden, F. Steiner, 1964, pp. x, 240, DM. 40.

Le Cours d'Anatomie Pathologique de Bichat: un Nouveau Manuscrit, by Jean Monteil, Grenoble, Imprimerie Guirimand, 1964, pp. 47, plates, no price stated.

Two Centuries of Medicine. A Histoty of the School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, by George W. Corner, Foreword by I. S. Ravdin, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, Co., 1965, pp. vi, 363, illus.

Isidore of Seville: The Medical Writings, by William D. Sharpe, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 54, part 2, 1964, pp. 75, $2.50.

A History of Chemistry, vol. iv, by J. R. Partington, London, Macmillan, 1964, pp. xxxii, 1007, illus. £10 10s.

The Royal Malady, by Charles Chenevix Trench, London, Longmans, 1964,pp. x, 245, 30s.

Das Viererschema in der antiken Humoralpathologie, by Erich Schöner with introduction by Robert Herrlinger, Wiesbaden, F. Steiner, 1964, (Arch. Gesch. Med., Suppl. 4), pp. x, 114, I folding plate. DM.241

De Heelkunde in de Vroege Middeleeuwen, by D. De Moulin, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1964, pp. 166, 23 plates, 25 fl.

Perspectives of Medicine, by J. B. Harman, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Company, Ltd., 1964, pp. 86, 7s. 6d.

Anson Jones. The Last President of Texas, by Herbert Gambrell, Foreword by William R. Hogan, Austin, University of Texas, 1964, pp. xvi, 530, port., $ 6.00.

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