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Volume 21 - Issue 3 - July 1977

Articles

A structural pattern in Greek dietetics and the early history of Greek medicine

The early history of nerve regeneration beginning with Cruikshank's observations in 1776

British surgery in the South African War: the work of Major Frederick Porter

Female pills and the reputation of iron as an abortifacient

Short Articles

An early account of blood pressure measurement by Joseph Struthius (1510–1568)

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The anatomy department at University College, Dundee, 1888–1954

Talo-calcaneal bridging in an Anglo-Saxon

Book Reviews

H. R. Denham (compiler), A catalogue ofprinted books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Volume III: Books printed from 1641 to 1850, F-L, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1976, 4to, pp. xvi, 565, £25.00 ($55.00).

Ming Wong, La médecine chinoise par les plantes, Paris, Editions Tchou, 1976, 8vo, pp. 284, illus., [no price stated].

Daphne Du Maurier, The winding stair. Francis Bacon, his rise and fall, London, Gollancz, 1976, pp. 245, illus., £6.50.

Ray Allen Billington (editor), Allan Nevins on history, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975 8vo, pp. xxvii, 420, $15.00.

Fred Kaplan, Dickens and mesmerism. The hidden springs of fiction, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xv, 250, illus., £6.30.

W. S. Craig, History of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1976, 4to, pp. xxix, 1125, illus., £35.00.

A. L. Donovan, Philosophical chemistry in the Scottish Enlightenment. The doctrines and discoveries of William Cullen and Joseph Black, Edinburgh University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 343, illus., £7.00.

J. Dupaquier (editor), Annales de démographie historique 1973. Enfant et sociétés, Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. 488, illus., Hfl.36.00.

Agostino Ramelli, The various and ingenious machines of Agostino Ramelli (1588), translated by Martha Teach Gnudi, London, Scolar Press, 1976, fo., pp. 604, illus., £50.00.

Marvin Rosen, Gerald R. Clark and Marvin S. Kivitz (editors), The history of mental retardation. Collected papers, 2 vols., Baltimore, Md., and London, University Park Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 400, and ix, 453, £18.50.

Carlo M. Cipolla, Public health and the medical profession in the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 136, illus., £5.50.

John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell (editors), Advances in American medicine: essays at the Bicentennial, 2 vols., New York, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 918, illus., $25.00.

John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell (editors), Advances in American medicine: essays at the Bicentennial, 2 vols., New York,Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 918, illus., $25.00.

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