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Detlef Haberland, Engelbert Kaempfer 1651–1716: a biography, trans. Peter Hogg, London, The British Library, 1996, pp. vii, 158, illus., £35.00, $70.00 (0-7123-4503-5).
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Ove Hagelin (compiler), Old and rare books on materia medica in the library of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society [Apotekarsocieteten\: an illustrated and annotated catalogue, Stockholm, Swedish Pharmaceutical Press, 1997, pp. 223, illus., SEK 625.00 (EU), SEK 500 (outside EU), orders to: Swedish Pharmaceutical Press, P.O. Box 1136, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Patricia Fara, Sympathetic attractions: magnetic practices, beliefs, and symbolism in eighteenth-century England, Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. xiii, 327, illus., £35.00, $45.00 (0-691-01099-4).
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Francis Maddison and Emilie Savage-Smith, Science, tools and magic, Part One. Body and spirit, mapping the universe; Emilie Savage-Smith with contributions from Ralph Pinder-Wilson and Tim Stanley, Part Two. Mundane worlds, The Nasser D Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 12, London, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 439, illus., £185.00 (0-19-7276105).
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Armelie Debru and Guy Sabbah (eds), Nommer la maladie. Recherches sur le lexique gréco-latin de la pathologie, Mémoires XVII, Centre Jean-Palerne de l'Université de SaintÉtienne, 1998, pp. 244, FFrs 120.00 (2-86272-128-X).
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Annette Müller, Krankheitsbilder im Liber de Plantis der Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) und im Speyerer Krduterbuch (1456). Ein Beitrag zur medizinischpharmazeutischen Terminologie im Mittelalter, I: Textband, II: Indexband, Schriften zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2 vols, Hürtgenwald, Guido Pressler, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 239, vol. 2, pp. xvii, 557, DM 380.00 (vol. 1: 3-87646-083-2; vol. 2: 3-87646-084-0).
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Aidan Cockburn, Eve Cockburn, and Theodore A Reyman (eds), Mummies, disease and ancient cultures, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1998 (1st ed., 1980), pp. xxii, 402, £70.00 (hardback 0-521-58060-9), £24.95 (paperback 0-521-58954-1).
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Giovanna Ferrari, L'Esperienza del passato. Alessandro Benedetti, filologo e medico umanista, Biblioteca di Nuncius, studi e testi XXII, Florence, Leo S Olschki, 1996, pp. 357, no price given (88-222-4465-6).
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Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton (eds), Women, science and medicine, 1500–1700, Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 1997, pp. xx, 292, illus., £40.00 (hardback 0-7509-1334-7), £14.99 (paperback 0-7509-1343-6).
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Hellmut Flashar, et al., Médecine et morale dans l'antiquité. Dix exposes suivis de discussions, Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique, vol. 43, Geneva, Fondation Hardt, 1997, pp. viii, 415, SFr 70.00.
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Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews (eds), Western medicine as contested knowledge, Studies in Imperialism, Manchester University Press, 1997, pp. ix, 294, illus., £40.00 (0-7190-4673-4).
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Anna Manfron (ed.), La biblioteca di un medico del quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Biblioteca Malatestiana, Turin, Umberto Allemandi, 1998, pp. 257, illus. (88-422-0814-0).
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Frances Willmoth (ed.), Flamsteed's stars: new perspectives on the life and work of the first Astronomer Royal (1646–1719), Woodbridge, Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Musuem, 1997, pp. xiv, 271, illus., £45.00, $78.00 (0-85115-706-8).
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Änne Baumer, Bibliography of the history of biology. Bibliographie zur Geschichte der Biologie, Frankfurt am Main and New York, Peter Lang, 1997, pp. xi, 307, £40.00 (3-631-32261-5, USA 0-8204-3513-9).
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Peter Murray Jones, Medieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts, London, The British Library by arrangement with the Centro Tibaldi, Milan, 1998 (original edition first published in 1984 under the title Medieval medical manuscripts), pp. 111, illus., £20.00 (0-7123-0657-9).
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Roshdi Rashed (ed.), Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science, 3 vols., London and New York, Routledge, 1996, pp. xxviii, 1105, £160 (0-415-12410-7).
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J Worth Estes and Billy G Smith (eds), A melancholy scene of devastation: the public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic, Canton, MA, Science History Publications/USA for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1997, pp. xii, 212, illus., $35.95 (0-88135-192-X).
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Dominic Montserrat (ed.), Changing bodies, changing meanings: studies on the human body in antiquity, London and New York, Routledge, 1997, pp. xvi, 234, illus., £45.00 (0-415-13584-2).
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Malcolm Barber (ed.), The military orders: fighting for the faith and caring for the sick, Aldershot, Variorum, 1994, pp. xxviii, 399, illus., £55.00 (0-86078-4338-X).
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Nicholas J Wade, A natural history of vision, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1998, pp. xvi, 466, illus., £34.95 (0-262-23194-8).
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