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Volume 28 - Issue 1 - January 1984

Book Review

Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows. The morphology of an early scientific institution, Chalfont St Giles, British Society for the History of Science, 1982, 8vo, pp. v, 277, £5.90 (paperback).

Richard Olson, Science deified and science defied. The historical significance of science in Western culture. From the Bronze Age to the beginnings of the modern era ca. 3500 BC to ca. AD 1640, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 329, £27.50.

James Watt, E. J. Freeman, and W. F. Bynum (editors), Starving sailors. The influence of nutrition upon naval and maritime history, London, National Maritime Museum, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiv, 212, illus., £5.95 +postage (paperback).

Othmar Keel, La généalogie de l'histopathologie. Une révision déchirante. Philippe Pinel, lecteur discret de J.-C. Smyth (1741–1821), Paris, Vrin, 1979, 8vo, pp. ii, 135 +facsimile, [no price stated].

P. L. Thillaud, Les maladies et la médecine en pays basque nord à la fin de l'Ancien Régime (1690–1789), Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 228, illus., [no price stated] (paperback).

Frederick SargentII, Hippocratic heritage. A history of ideas about weather and human health, New York and Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xlii, 581, illus., $65.00 ($25.00 paperback).

Peter Garnsey, C. R. Whittaker (editors), Trade and famine in classical antiquity, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume 8, Cambridge, 1983, 8vo, pp. 127, £12.50 (paperback). (Obtainable from Dr C. Austin, Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ.)

John A. Pithis, Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos, Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. 263. [no price stated] (paperback).

K. Theodore Hoppen (compiler), The papers of the Dublin Philosophical Society 1683–1708 (text on microfiche, introduction and index in printed booklet), Dublin, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1983, £14.00. (Obtainable from Trade and Postal Sales, Stationery Office, Waterloo Road, Dublin 4.)

Dyre Trolle, The history of Caesarean section (Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, vol. 33), Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1982, 8vo, pp. 109, illus., Dkr. 102.50 (paperback).

Joachim Gabka and Ekkehard Vaubel, Plastic surgery, past and present. The origin and history of modern lines of incision, Basle, Karger, 1983, 4to, pp. viii, 179, illus., SFr.295.00.

G. K. Behlmer, Child abuse and moral reform in England, 1870–1908, Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. ix, 320, illus., $30.00.

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