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Volume 35 - Issue 4 - October 1991

Book Reviews

J. Worth Estes, Dictionary of protopharmacology. therapeutic practices, 1700–1850, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications USA, 1990, pp. xvii, 229, illus., $49.95 (0-88135-068-0).

Gunter Mann and Franz Dumont (eds), Die Natur des Menschen: Probleme der physischen Anthropologie und Rassenkunde (1750–1850), Soemmerring-Forschungen 6, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, 1990, 8vo, pp. 457, DM 128.00.

Jules Kosky, Mutual friends: Charles Dickens and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 245, illus., £14.95.

Joseph S. Fruton, Contrasts in scientific style: research groups in the chemical and biochemical sciences, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 191, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1990, pp. xii, 473, $40.00 (0-87169-191-4).

L. J. Rather, A commentary on the medical writings of Rudolf Virchow: based on Schwalbe's ‘Virchow-Bibliographie’, 1843–1901, Norman Bibliography Series 3, San Francisco, Norman, 1990, pp. xi, 236, illus., $125.00 (0-930405-19-6).

Carol L. Moberg and Zanvil A. Cohn (eds), Launching the antibiotic era: personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics, New York, The Rockefeller University Press, 1990, pp. xii, 97, illus., (0-87470-047-7).

Catriona Blake, The charge of the parasols: Women's entry to the medical profession, London, The Women's Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvii, 254, £6.95 (paperback).

Vern Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, and Marietta P. Stanton (eds), Florence Nightingale and her era: a collection of new scholarship, New York and London, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi. 365, $50.00.

W. J. O'Connor, British physiologists 1885–1914: a biographical dictionary, Manchester University Press, 1991, pp. xviii, 582, £55.00 (0-7190-3282-2).

Richard B. Welbourn, The history of endocrine surgery, with contributions by Stanley R. Friesen, Ivan D. A. Johnston, and Ronald A. Sellwood, New York, Praeger, 1990, 8vo, pp. xix, 385, illus., £52.50.

Victoria A. Harden, Rocky Mountain spotted fever: history of a twentieth century disease, The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi, 375, illus., £28.50.

H. Phillips, ‘Black October’: the impact of the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa, Pretoria, The Government Printer, 1990, 4to, pp. xix, 281, illus.

Terry Copp and Bill Mcandrew, Battle exhaustion: soldiers and pschiatrists in the Canadian Army, 1939–1945, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi, 249, illus., £28.45.

Gerrit Hohendorf and Achim Magull-Seltenreich (eds), Von der Heilkunde zur Massentötung: Medizin im Nationalsozialismus, Heidelberg, Wunderhorn (Schröderstraβe 16, 6900 Heidelberg), 1990, pp. 287, illus., DM 28.00 + p. & p. (3-88423-067-0).

Frank Fenner (ed.), History of microbiology in Australia, Parkville, Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990, 8vo, pp. xiv, 610, illus., £35.00 or US $75.00 incl. p. & p. from the Australian Society for Microbiology Inc., 191 Royal Parade, Parkville 3052, Australia.

H. E. Henkes (ed.) and C L Zrenner (associate ed.), History of ophthalmology 1, Sub auspiciis Academiae Ophthalmologicae Internationalis, repr., Documenta Ophthalmologica 68, nos. 1-2, Dordrecht, Boston, and London, Kluwer, 1988, 8vo, pp. 184, illus., Dfl. 165.00/ $85.00/£49.95 (paperback).

Daniel M. Fox, Marcia Meldrum, and Ira Rezak (eds), Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: a biographical dictionary, New York, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xviii, 595, $95.00.

Alexander Kohn, Fortune or failure: missed opportunities and chance discoveries in science, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 199, illus., £14.95.

Geoffrey Tweedale, At the sign of the plough: 275 years of Allen & Hanburys and the British pharmaceutical industry 1715–1990, London, John Murray, 1990, 8vo, pp. 264, illus., £1 7.95.

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