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Volume 37 - Issue 2 - April 1993

Articles

Privileged communications: medical confidentiality in late Victorian Britain

Pious physic for the poor: The lost Durham County medical scheme of 1655

Measuring “the social evil”: The incidence of venereal disease in interwar Scotland

Henry Fogg (1707–1750) and his patients: the practice of an eighteenth-century Staffordshire apothecary

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The life and times of the Myers Collection

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Book Reviews

Mary E. Fissell, Patients, power and the poor in eighteenth-century Bristol, Cambridge History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. xi, 266, illus., £35.00, $54.50 (0-521-49947-3).

James Harvey Young, American health quackery: collected essays, Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. xii, 299, illus., £22.50, $24.95 (0-691-04782-0).

Terence Ranger and Paul Slack (eds), Epidemics and ideas: essays on the historical perception of pestilence, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. ix, 346, £35, $49.95 (0-521-40276-X).

Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas (eds), A Greek acnd Arabic lexicon: mnaterials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Araibic, Fascicle I, Leiden and New York, E. J. Brill, 1992, pp. xxxii, 96, GId. 40.00, $23.00 (90-04-09494-6).

Judith A. Overmier and John Edward Senior, Books and manuscripts of The Bakken, Metuchen, NJ, and London, The Scarecrow Press, 1992, pp. xvii, 512, illus., £59.65 (0-8108-2570-8).

Jens Lachmund and Gunnar Stollberg (eds), The social construction of illness: illness and medical knowledge in past and present, Medizin, Gesellschaft und Geschichte, Beiheft 1, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner, 1992, pp. 182, DM 68.00 (3-515-05839-7).

Alfons Labisch, Homo Hygienicus: Gesundheit und Medizin in der Neuzeit, Frankfurt, New York, Campus Verlag, 1992, pp. 340, DM 68.00 (3-593-34528-5).

Howard BrodyMD, The healer's power, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992,. xiii, 311, £18.95, $32.50 (0-300-05174-3).

Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Doctors' stories: the narratiive structure of medical knowledge, Princeton University Press, 1991, pp. xxiii, 205, $24.95 (0-691-06888-7).

Iain D. Levack and H. A. F. Dudley (eds), Aberdeen Royal Infirmary: the people's hospital of the north-east, London and Philadelphia, Balliere Tindall, 1992, pp. xiv, 274, illus., £17.95 (0-7020-1666-7).

Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, Egypt's other wars: epidemics and the politics of public health, Syracuse University Press, 1990, pp. xiii, 234, illus., $32.50 (0-8156-2507-3).

Anthony Batty Shaw, Norfolk and Norwich medicine: a retrospect, Norwich, The Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society (Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, Norwich NR1 3SR), 1992, pp. xxi, 175, illus., (hardback, 0-9518866-6), £10.00 (paperback 0-9518866-1-4).

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