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Volume 20 - October 1976

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Felix Grayeff, Aristotle and his School. An inquiry into the history of the Peripatos with a commentary on ‘Metaphysics’ Z, H, ^ and θ, London, Duckworth, 1974, 8vo, pp. 230, £4.95.

Th. H. Lunsingh Scheurleer and G. H. M. Posthumus Meyjes (editors), Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975, fo, pp. viii, 496, illus., DFI. 175.

Arnold H. Taylor, American diplomacy and the narcotics traffic, 1900–1939. A study in international humanitarian reforms, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1969, 8vo, pp. ix, 370, (no price stated).

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Modieval aspects of Renaissance learning, Durham, N. C., Duke University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 175, $7.50.

Marcel Florkin, A history of biochemistry. Part III. History of the identification of the sources of free energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25).

Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem possessed. The social origins of witchcraft, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xxi, 231, illus., $10.00.

David De Giustino, Conquest of the mind. Phrenology and Victorian social thought, London, Croom Helm, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 248, £6.00.

Giuseppè Pitrl, Sicilian folk medicine, translated by Phyllis H. Williams, Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1971, 4to, pp. xv [317], illus., $48.50.

Molly Lefebure, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a bondage of opium, London, Gollancz, 1974, 8vo, pp. 537, illus., £6.00.

Elspeth Huxley, Florence Nightingale, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975, 4to, pp. 254, illus., £4.95.

Wolfgang Kullmann, Wissenschaft und Methode: Interpretationen zur aristotelischen Theorie der Naturwissenschaft, Berlin and New York, Walter De Gruyter, 1974, pp. x, 419, DM.138.

Gordon Thomas, Issels. The biography ofa doctor, London, Hodder& Stoughton, 1975, 8vo, pp. 352, illus., £3.50.

Vernon W. Lippard and Elizabeth F. Purcell (editors), Case histories of ten new medical schools, New York, The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1972, 8vo, pp. ix, 419, illus., (no price stated).

Howard B. Adelmann (editor), The correspondence of Marcello Malpighi, 5 volumes, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1975, 4to, pp. xx, 1436; xii, 437-916; xiv, 917-1420; xiv, 1421-1850; x, 1851-2227, $95.00 the set.

Derek Parker, Familiar to all. William Lilly and astrology in the seventeenth century, London, J. Cape, 1975, 8vo, pp. 272, illus., £5.50.

E. Ruth Harvey, The inward wits. Psychological theory in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, London, The Warburg Institute (Warburg Institute Surveys, No. 6), 1975, 8vo, pp. [v], 79, illus., £2.00.

Thomas Dover's life and legacy, edited and introduced by Kenneth Dewhurst, Metuchen, N.J., The Scarecrow Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xliii, viii, 240, [facsimile reproduction], (241–247), $12.50

R. C. Stauffer, Charles Darwin's natural selection, being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 692, illus., £20.00.

Michael V. Deporte Nightmares and hobbyhorses. Swift, Sterne, and Augustan ideas of madness, San Marino, Calif., The Huntington Library, (Folkestone, Kent, Dawsons), 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 164, £5.00.

Charles Lichtenthaeler, Geschichte der Medizin, 2 vols., Cologne, Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, 1975, 8vo, pp. 736, illus., DM.49.

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