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Volume 20 - October 1976

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Leslie V. Grinsell, Barrow, pyramid and tomb. Ancient burial customs in Egypt, the Mediterranean and the British Isles, London, Thames & Hudson, 1975, 8vo, pp. 240, illus., £5.75.

F. W. Dillistone, Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975, 8vo, pp. 448, illus., £5.25.

Louis Dulieu, La médecine à Montpellier, Vol. 1, Le Moyen Âge, Avignon, Les Presses Universelles, 1975, 8vo, pp. 386, illus., 150 F.

Norman Howard-Jones, The scientific background of the International Sanitary Conferences 1851–1938, Geneva, World Health Organization, 1975, 4to, pp. 110, illus., S.Fr.12.00 (paperback).

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H. Tristam Engelhardtjr. and Stuart F. Spicker (editors), Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1975, 8vo, pp. vi, 240, $28.00.

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M. I. Finley, The use and abuse of history, London, Chatto & Windus, 1975, 8vo, pp. 254, £4.50.

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H. A. Feisenberger (editor), Sales catalogues of eminent persons, Volume 11, Scientists, London, Mansell with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1975, 8vo, pp. 296, £11.50 ($29.00).

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Peter Ward Fay, The opium war 1840–1842. Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the early part ofthe nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates ajar, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxi, 406, illus., $14.95.

Esther Fischer-Homberger, Die traumatische Neurose. Vom somatischen zum sozialen Leiden, Berne, Stuttgart and Vienna, Hans Huber, 1975, pp. 264, illus., S.Fr. 22/DM.21.

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