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Volume 19 - October 1975

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T. R. Forbes, Chronicle from Aldgate; life and death in Shakespeare's London, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1971, pp xx, 251, £4.50.

Robert Olby, The path to the double helix, London, Macmillan, 1974, 8vo., pp. xxiii, 510, illus., £12.50.

Audrey B. Davis, Circulation physiology and medical chemistry in England 1650–1680, Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1973, pp. x, 263, illus., $8.50.

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C. R. S. Harris, The heart and the vascular system in ancient Greek medicine. From Alkmaeon to Galen, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1973, pp. xii, 474, illus., £15.00.

Owsei Temkin, Galenism. Rise and decline of a medical philosophy, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1973, pp. xvii, 240, illus., $15.00.

Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Claude Bernard and animal chemistry. The emergence of a scientist, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974, 8vo., pp. xx, 541, illus., £9.00

George Pickering, Creative malady. Illness in the lives and minds of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Mary Baker Eddy, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1974, 8vo., pp. 327, illus., £5.25.

Edward Grant (editor), A source book in medieval science, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974, 4to., pp. xvii, 864, £16.25.

John Woodward, To do the sick no harm. A study of the British voluntary hospital system to 1875, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, 8vo., pp. xii, 221, £5.50.

SirNeil Cantlie, A history of the Army Medical Department, Edinburgh and London, Churchill Livingstone, 1974, 2 vols., pp. x, 519; x, 448, maps, £12.00.

Thomas B. Turner, Heritage of excellence. The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1914–1947, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974, pp. viii, 648, illus., £8.75.

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John C. KrantzJr., Historical medical classics involving new drugs, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1974, 8vo., pp. x, 129, illus., $8.50.

Rudolph E. Siegel, Galen on psychology, psychopathology, and function and diseases ofthe nervous system, Basle, S. Karger, 1973, pp. xii, 310, £17.10.

D. W. Forrest, Francis Galton; the life and work of a Victorian genius, London, P. Elek, 1974, 8vo., pp. xi, 340, illus., £5.50.

Michel Foucault, The birth of the clinic. An archaeology of medical perception, translated from the French by A. M. Sheridan Smith, London, Tavistock Publications, 1973, 8vo., pp. xix, 212, £5.00.

E. T. Renbourn, Materials and clothing in health and disease, with ‘The biophysics of clothing materials’, London, H. K. Lewis, 1972, 8vo., pp. xii, 599, illus., £9.50.

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