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Volume 9 - January 1965

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Invătămĭntul medical şi farmaceutie din Bucuresti de la ĭnceputuri pĭnă ĭn prezent, ed. by T. Ilea, Institutul de Medicinĭ şi Farmacie Bucuresti, 1963, pp. 604, no price given.

Schiller. Sein Leben und die Medizin im 18. Jahrhundert, by Wilhelm Theopld, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer Verlag, (Reihe Medizin in Geschichte und Kultur, Band 6), 1964, pp. 251, DM. 24.90 boards, DM. 21.50 paper back.

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St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 1863–1963, edited by Brian Russell, Edinburgh and London, E. ' S. Livingstone1963, pp. viii, 71, illus., 27s. 6d.

The Plague of the Philistines, by J. F. D. Shrewsbury, London, Gollancz, 1964, pp. 189, 25s.

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Albert von Bezold (1836–1868). Ein Pionier der Kardiologie, by Robert Herrlinger and Irmgard Krupp, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer Verlag, (Reihe Medizin in Geschichte und Kultur, Band 4), 1964, pp. vii, 131, DM. I9.80.

The Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 1814–1964: A Short History, by F. S. StanCliffe, Manchester University Press, 1964, pp. 110, 8 plates, 5 figs., 15s.

Curare: Its History and Usage, by K. Bryn Thomas, London, Pitman Medical Publishing Co., 1964, illus., pp. 144, 30s.

History, Psychology, and Science: Selected Papers, by Edwin G. Boring, edited by R. I. Watson and D. T. Campbell, New York, 1963, pp. xii, 372.

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MDH volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Description of The Retreat, by Samuel Tuke, reprinted with an Introduction by Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine, London, Dawsons, 1964, pp. 26,227, illus., 70s.

English books printed before 1701 in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, by W. R. Lefanu, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1963, pp. 27, (no price given).

Things for the Surgeon: A History of the body-snatchers, by Hubert Cole, London, Heinemann, 1964, pp. 174, 1964, illus., 30s.

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MDH volume 9 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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The History of Diabetes Mellitus, 2nd ed., by N. S. Papaspyros, Stuttgart, G. Thieme Verlag, 1964, pp. 104, 10 plates, revised and supplemented, DM. 19.50.

Footprints on the Sands of Time, The Story of the House of Livingstone 1863–1963, Edinburgh, E. and S. Livingstone, 1963, pp. 71 [no price given].

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MDH volume 9 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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Bibliotheca Belgica: livraisons 227e–228e (Hugo Favolius, P. Van Goorle, T. Montis,J. Sauvage), edited by Elly Cockx, Brussels, Indestege, 1963, illus. (no price stated).

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