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Volume 34 - Issue 3 - July 1990

Articles

Physicians at the Ottoman court

The anodyne necklace: A quack remedy and its promotion

Wagner-Jauregg and fever therapy

Medical complications associated with security and control of prisoners of war in the ancient Near East

Robert Pulvertaft's use of crude penicillin in Cairo

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The Eugenics Society archives in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

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Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the rise of civilization, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 285, £22.50, $35.00.

Tony Hunt, Plant names of medieval England, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1989, 8vo, pp. Ivi, 334, £35.00.

John Sym, Lifes preservative against self-killing, with an Introduction by Michael MacDonald, Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. liii, 326, £29.95.

Michael Hunter, Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society, Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiv, 382, illus., £45.00, $86.00.

George P. Milne (ed.), Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society: a bicentennial history 1789–1989, Aberdeen University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xv, 313, illus., £17.00 +£1.50 p&p from Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Medical Centre, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB9 2ZB.

A. D. Morris, James Parkinson: his life and times, ed. F. Clifford Rose, History of Neuroscience, Boston, Birkhäuser, 1989, 8vo, pp. xi, 207, illus., $59.00.

Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual visions: images of gender in science and medicine between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, New York, etc., Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989, 8vo. pp. xiii, 207, illus., £19.95.

John Christie and Sally Shuttleworth (eds.), Nature transfigured: science and literature, 1700–1900, Manchester University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. 225, £29.95.

Mary Cowling, The artist as anthropologist: the representation of type and character in Victorian art, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 4to, pp. xxii, 391, illus., £50.00, $69.50.

Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles: an annotated, historical biobibliography and index, Metuchen NJ and London, Scarecrow Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xviii, 431, £47.25. Dist. Bailey Bros & Swinfen Ltd., Folkestone.

R. M. Murray and T. H. Turner (eds.), Lectures on the history of psychiatry: the Squibb series, London, Gaskell (an imprint of the Royal College of Psychiatrists), 1990, 8vo, pp. xi, 223, illus., £10.00 (paperback).

Toby A. Appel, The Cuvier-Geoffroy debate: French biology in the decades before Darwin, Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. 305, illus., £29.50.

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