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Volume 13 - October 1969

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Medical Licensing in America, 1650–1965, by R. H. Shryock, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1968, pp. xi, 124, 52s. 6d.

Quantitative Research in Human Biology and Medicine, by Sigismund Peller, Bristol, John Wright, 1967, pp. xii, 422, 63s.

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s.

Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed before 1851 in the Library of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2nd ed., London, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1968, pp. vi, 85, illus., 30s. Od.

Wreath on the Crown, by John Cule, Llandysul, Cards., Gomerian Press, 1967, pp. 143, 18s. Od.

Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680). His Life and Worksby A. Schierbeek, Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1967, pp. vi, 202, illus., no price stated.

Histoire de la Médecineby Roger Bouissou, Paris, Larousse, 1967, pp. 383, illus., no price stated.

Physikalische Heilmethoden in der ersten Wiener Medizinischen Schule, by Ursula Schäbfer (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften, No. 4), Vienna, Hermann Bohlaus, 1967, pp. 238,illus., ÖS.108.

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, by Elias Ashmole, reprint of the London 1652 ed., with introduction by Allen G. Debus, New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966, pp. xlix, 486, illus., no price stated.

Surgeon in the Crimea by George Lawson, London, Constable, 1968, pp. 209, illus., 35s.

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The Story of Health, by Anne Howarr and George Howarr, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1967, pp. viii, 118, illus., 12s. 6d.

The British Postgraduate Medical Federation: The First Fifteen Yearsby Francis Fraser, London, The Athlone Press, 1967, pp. vii, 69, port., 15s. Od.

Hahnemanns Krankenjournal Nr.4, ed. by Heinz Henne (Veroffentlichungen aus dem Robert Bosch-Krankenhaus Stuttgart), Stuttgart, Hippokrates-Verlag, 1968, pp. 354, DM. 38.

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MDH volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Eine Geschichte der Anatomie und Physiologie von Albrecht von Haller, by Carlo Zanetri and Ursula Wimmer-Aeschlimann (Berner Beiträige zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, Band 1), Berne, Huber Verlag, 1968, pp. 157, S.Fr./DM.19.

Index zur Geschichte der Medizin und Biologie, ed. by Johannes Steudel, Bd. 2, 1949-1951/2, Munich, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1966, pp. viii, 312, DM.72.

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MDH volume 13 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Louis A. Duhring, M. D., Pathfinder for Dermatology, by Lawrence Charles Parish, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1967, pp. xviii, 137, illus., $4.40.

Problemata Varia Anatomica: MS 1165 The University of Bologna by J. R. Lind, University of Kansas Publications, Humanistic Studies no. 38, Lawrence, 1968, pp. 100, no price stated.

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