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Volume 39 - Issue 4 - October 1995

Articles

What the doctor thought and did: Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840–1938)

“That puzleing problem”: Isaac Newton and the political physiology of self

What's in a name? Henry Dale and adrenaline, 1906

Texts and Documents

Malpighi's De polypo cordis: An annotated translation

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: John Evelyn's tables of veins and arteries: a rediscovered letter

Obituaries

Richard Hancock Ellis(1937–1995)

William Richard LeFanu(1904–1995)

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News, Notes, and Queries

Book Reviews

Adrian Desmond, Huxley: the devil's disciple, London, Michael Joseph, 1994, pp. xvii, 475, illus., £20.00 (0-7181-3641-1).

Roger French, William Harvey's natural philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. xii, 393, £40.00, $64.95 (0-521-45535-9).

Katherine Arnup, Education for motherhood: advice for mothers in twentieth century Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. xiii, 251, illus., UK £32.00, USA $50.00, Europe $60.00 (hardback 0-8020-2861-6), UK £12.00, USA $18.95, Europe $23.00 (paperback 0-8020-7361-1).

Valerie Fildes, Lara Marks, and Hilary Marland (eds), Women and children first: international maternal and infant welfare, 1870–1945, London, Routledge, 1992, pp. xxiii, 311, illus., £45.00 (0-415-08090-8).

Tony Waldron, Counting the dead: the epidemiology of skeletal populations, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, pp. xiv, 109, £12.95 (paperback 0-471-95138-2).

John Symons, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: a short history, London, Wellcome Trust, 1993, pp. iv, 63, illus., £5.00 (1-869835-34-4).

Christopher Lawrence, Medicine in the making of modern Britain, 1700–1920, Historical Connections, London and New York, Routledge, 1994, pp. xi, 106, £6.99 (0-415-09168-3).

Kenneth C McKeown, A tale of two citadels: memoirs of a surgeon and his times, Edinburgh and Cambridge, The Pentland Press, 1994, pp. xiv, 276, illus., £17.50 (1-85821-208-1).

Duncan Crewe, Yellow Jack and the wonn: British naval administration in the West Indies, 1739–1748, Liverpool Historical Studies 9, Liverpool University Press, 1993, pp. xiii, 321, £17.50 (0-85323-267-9).

Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, Historia de los balnearios de la provincia de Málaga, Málaga, Centro de Ediciones de la Diputación de Malaga, 1994, pp. 287, illus., no price given (84-7785-101-8).

Joseph Shatzmiller, Jews, medicine, and medieval society, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1995, pp. xi, 241, $40.00 (0-520-08059-9).

Volker Hess, Von der semiotischen zur diagnostischen Medizin: Die Entstehung der klinischen Methode zwischen 1750 und 1850, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, vol. 66, Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1993, pp. 346, DM 98.00 (3-7868-4066-0).

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Volume 39 - Issue 4 - October 1995

Articles

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Book Reviews