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Volume 22 - Issue 4 - October 1978

Articles

No help wanted. Medical research exchange between Russia and the West during the Second World War

Fertility, infant mortality, and breast feeding in the seventeenth century

The conveyance of patients to and from hospital, 1720—1850

Prescription and devotion: the Reverend Doctor Donne and the learned Doctor Mayerne—two seventeenth-century records of epidemic typhus fever

Dr. Butler revisited

Dr. Butler revisited: appreciation and comments

Texts and Documents

Autopsy on Sir George Douglas, A.D. 1636

A Hebrew paraphrase of the Hippocratic oath (from a fifteenth-century manuscript)

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes and Queries

Book Reviews

G. E. R. Lloyd (editor), Hippocratic writings, Harmondsworth, Middx., Penguin Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. 380, £1.95 (paperback).

A. J. Guibert, Descartes. Bibliographie des oeuvres publiées au XVIIe siècle, Paris, Central National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1976, 8vo, pp. 237, illus., Fr. 95.00.

Owsei Temkin, William K. Frankena and Sandford H. Kadish, Respect for life in medicine, philosophy, and the law, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. ix, 107, £5.95.

Stanley Joel Reiser, Arthur J. Dyck and William J. Curran, (editors), Ethics in medicine. Historical perspectives and contemporary concerns, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1977, 4to, pp. xiii, 679, illus., £28.00.

Stuart F. Spicker and H. Tristram Engelhardtjr. (editors), Philosophical medical ethics: its nature and significance, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1977, 8vo, pp. vi, 252, Dfl.55.00, $19.50.

Isaac Barzilay, Yoseph Shlomo Delmedigo (Yashar of Candia), Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 379, illus., Dfl. 84.00.

Johannes Peter Rohland, Der Erzengel Michael, Arzt und Feldherr: zwei Aspekte des vor- und frühbyzantinischen Michaelskultes, Leiden, Brill, 1977, 8vo, pp. vii, 156, illus., Dfl.40.00 (paperback).

Moses A. Shulvass, The Jews in the world of the Renaissance, Leiden, Brill, 1973, 8vo, pp. xv, 367, Dfl.58.00.

Dietlinde Goltz, Joachim Telle and Hans J. Vermeer, Der alchemistische Traktat “Von der Multiplikation” von Pseudo-Thomas von Aquin, (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 19), Wiesbaden, Steiner, 1977, 8vo, pp. vi, 173, DM. 48.00 (paperback).

Ronald C. Finucane, Miracles and pilgrims. Popular beliefs in medieval England, London, Dent, 1977, 8vo, pp. 248, £6.95.

Nicholas H. Steneck, Science and creation in the Middle Ages. Henry of Langenstein (d. 1397) on Genesis, Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 213, illus., $14.95 ($4.95 paperback).

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