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Volume 25 - Issue 4 - October 1981

Articles

Complaints and complaint procedures in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century provincial hospitals in England

Glanders: medicine and veterinary medicine in common pursuit of a contagious disease

Nicolò Massa, his family and his fortune

The survival of traditional medicine in lay medical views: an empirical approach to the history of medicine

The fame and notoriety of Dr. John Huxham

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Book Review

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The printing press as an agent of change: communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 1979, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxi, 794; vol. 1, £30; vol. 2, £25; or £50 the set.

Robert G. Frankjr., Harvey and the Oxford physiologists. A study of scientific ideas, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 368, illus., £16.50.

John D. Spillane, The doctrine of the nerves. Chapters in the history of neurology, Oxford University Press, 1981, 4to, pp. xii, 467, illus., £25.00.

Richard S. Westfall, Never at rest. A biography of Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 908, illus., £25.00.

Saul Jarcho, The concept of heart failure from Avicenna to Albertini, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1980, 4to, pp. xiii, 407, £27.00.

Arthur Kleinman, Patients and healers in the context of culture. An exploration of the borderland between anthropology, medicine, and psychiatry, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvi, 427, illus., £15.00.

Helen Turner, Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy, London, The Wellcome Trust and Heinemann, 1980, 8vo, pp. vii, 96, illus., £7 · 95.

Ursula Weisser (editor), “Buch über Geheimnis der Schöpfung und die Darstellung der Natur” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana, Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, 1979, 4to, pp. xiii, 66, 702, $15.00 (paperback).

Ursula Weisser, Das “Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung” von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana, (Ars Medica, Abt. III, Bd. 2), Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1980, 8vo, pp. xl, 258, DM. 180.00/$15.00.

Franz Köcher, Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Band V: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive 1, pp. xliii, plates 123, 1979; Band VI: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive 2, pp. xl, plates 175, 1980. Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, DM.360.00.

Stephen T. Anning, The history of medicine in Leeds, Leeds, W. S. Maney, 1980, 8vo, pp. ix, 218, illus., [no price stated], (paperback).

I. G. Jones, Health, wealth and politics in Victorian Wales, University College of Swansea, 1979, 8vo, pp. 39, [no price stated], (paperback).

Arthur Donovan and Joseph Prentiss, James Hutton's medical dissertation. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 70, pt. 6), Philadelphia, 1980, 4to, pp. 57, $8.00 (paperback).

Martin S. Staum, Cabanis. Enlightenment and medical philosophy in the French Revolution, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. xi, 430, £15.10.

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