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Volume 28 - Issue 1 - January 1984

Articles

The hospitals of later medieval London

The surgeoness: the female practitioner of surgery 1400–1800

A set of silver dental instruments from the New Milton Collection

The alleged miscarriages of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

The history of leprosy in Ethiopia to 1935

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The new lazaretto at Siros (Syra), Greece, in 1840 *

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Thomas Haenel, Zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie, Basle, Birkhauser Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. 249, illus., SFr. 32.00.

Donald B. Tower, Hensing, 1719. An account of the first chemical examination of the brain and the discovery of phosphorus therein, New York, Raven Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xvi, 407, illus., $47.50.

William Coleman, Death is a social disease. Public health and political economy in early industrial France, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxi, 322, £26.25.

Arnold S. Trebach, The heroin solution, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvi, 331, £16.95.

John Fry, Lord Hunt of Fawley, and R. J. F. H. Pinsent (editors), A history of the Royal College of General Practitioners. The first 25 years, London, MTP Press, 1983, 8vo. pp. xiii, 270, illus., £9.95.

William Rey Arney, Power and the profession of obstetrics, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 290, £20.00.

Jean Guillermand (editor), Histoire de la médecine aux armées, tome 1: De l'antiquité à la révolution, Paris, Editions Lavauzelle, 1983, 4to, pp. xii, 511, illus., Fr. 495.00.

Patrice Cugnetti, L'Hôpital de Grenoble des origines à la fin du Second Empire (Xlème siècle – 1870), Grenoble, Editions du Centre de Recherche d'Histoire Economique, Sociale et Institutionelle, 1980, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. 865, [no price stated], (paperback).

Ronald L. Numbers (editor), Compulsory health insurance. The continuing American debate, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 172, £21.95.

Frances Finnegan, Poverty and prejudice. A study of Irish immigrants in York 1840-1875, Cork University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 209, illus., Ir£ 15.00.

Rudolf Hirsch (editor), A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xx, 259, $30.00.

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