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Volume 20 - Issue 1 - January 1976

Book Reviews

John Neubauer, Bifocal vision. Novalis' philosophy of nature and disease, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1971, 8vo, pp. [x], 194, $7.75.

Beverley M. Barrows, A county and its health, A history of the development of the West Riding health services 1889–1974, [Wakefield], The Health Committee of the West Riding County Council, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 249, illus., [no price stated].

F. Kholeif, Avicenna on psychology, a study of his poem on the soul (al-qasīdah al-'ayniyyah), Beirut, Arab University Press, 1974, pp. 186 (Arabic) + pp. 3–5 (foreword in English), [no price stated].

Anthony Dent (editor), The horse through fifty centuries of civilization, London, Phaidon Press, 1974, 4to, pp. 288, illus., £8.95.

Guenther B. Risse (editor), Modern China and traditional medicine, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1973, 8vo, pp. viii, 167, $8.95.

Robert Claiborne, Climate, man and history, London, Angus & Robertson, 1973, 8vo, pp.444, illus., £3.25.

Luis S. Granjel, El ejercicio medico y otros capitulos de la medicina española, Universidad de Salamanca, 1974, 8vo, pp. 280, (no price stated).

C. Van Der Meer, J. V. Meininger and J. Schouten, Circa tiliam. Studia historiae medicinae Gerrit Arie Lindeboom septuagenario oblata, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1974, 8vo, pp. viii, 302, illus., DF1.76.

Florencio L. Pérez Bautista, Sociedad y Medicina en la novela realista española (Cuadernos de Historia de la Medicina espanola, monografias 27), Universidad de Salamanca, 1974, pp. 140, [no price stated].

J. M. C. Toynbee, Animals in Roman life and art, London, Thames & Hudson, 1973, 8vo, pp. 431, illus., £6.75.

J. M. C. Toynbee, Animals in Roman life and art, London, Thames & Hudson, 1973, 8vo, pp. 431, illus., £6.75.

Stanley Rubin, Medieval English medicine, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1974, 8vo, pp. 232, illus., £6.50.

Richard C. Dales, The scientific achievement of the Middle Ages, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973, 8vo, pp. ix, 182, illus., $12.50.

Hélène Metzger, Newton, Stahl, Boerhaave et la doctrine chimique, Paris, A. Blanchard, 1974, 8vo, pp. 332, Fr.32.

James F. Giffordjr., The evolution of a medical center. A history of medicine at Duke University to 1941, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972, 8vo, pp. [xi], 249, illus., $8.75.

Gavin De Beer (editor), Charles Darwin. Thomas Henry Huxley. Autobiographies, London, Oxford University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxvi, 123, illus., £3.30.

Thomas Hobbes, De homine. Traité de l'homme, translation and commentary by Paul-Marie Maurin, Paris, A. Blanchard, 1974, 8vo, pp. 205, illus., Fr.30.

W. Sterling Edwards and Peter D. Edwards, Alexis Carrel. Visionary surgeon, Springfield, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 143, illus., $5.00.

Robert Reid, Marie Curie, London, Collins, 1974, 8vo, pp. 349, illus., £4.50.

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