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Volume 31 - Issue 2 - April 1987

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Health and virtue: or, how to keep out of harm's way. Lectures on pathology and therapeutics by William Cullen c. 1770

The Syrian Medical Aid Association: British philanthropy in the Near East

Manual work, technology, and industrial health, 1918–39

The Bell-Magendie-Walker controversy

The social problem of the English physician in the early seventeenth century

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: Gachet and Johnston-Saint: The Provenance of van Gogh's L'Homme à la Pipe 1

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Book Review

T. J. Horder, J. A. Witkowski, and C. C. Wylie (editors), A history of embryology (British Society for Developmental Biology, symposium 8), Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 477, illus., £60.00.

William Hunter and the eighteenth-century medical world - W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (editors), William Hunter and the eighteenth-century medical world, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xi, 424, illus., £35.00.

Helen R. Woolcock, Rights of passage. Emigration to Australia in the nineteenth century, London and New York, Tavistock Publications, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvii, 377, illus., £25.00.

Huldrych M. Koelbing, Die ärztliche Therapie. Grundzüge ihrer Geschichte, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1985, 8vo, pp. 271, illus., DM.38.00 (paperback).

Judy Barrett Litoff, The American midwife debate. A sourcebook on its modern origins, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1986, 8vo, pp.xii, 251 illus., £35.00.

Kenneth J. Carpenter, The history ofscurvy and vitamin C, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. viii, 288, illus., £27.50.

Roger French and Frank Greenaway (editors), Science in the early Roman Empire: Pliny the Elder, his sources and influence, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. [viii], 287, £19.95.

Bill Luckin, Pollution and control: a social history of the Thames in the nineteenth century, Bristol and Boston, Adam Hilger, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 198, £22 50.

W. F. Bynum, C. Lawrence and V. Nutton, (editors), The emergence of modern cardiology (Medical History, Suplement no. 5), London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 178, illus., £12.00 (UK)/£16.00 (overseas).

Katharine Park, Doctors and medicine in early renaissance Florence, Princeton University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xii, 298, £33.40.

Oliver R. Impey and A. G. Macgregor, The origins of museums, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985, 4to, pp. xiii, illus., £60.00.

Walter Pagel, From Paracelsus to Van Helmont. Studies in Renaissance medicine and science, edited by Marianne Winder, London, Variorum Reprints, 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 350, illus., £32.00.

Howard S. Berliner, A system of scientific medicine. Philanthropic foundations in the Flexner era, New York and London, Tavistock Publications, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 190, $29 95 ($12-95 paperback).

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