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Volume 27 - 1983

Book Review

Ronald Fettes Chapman, Leonard Wood and leprosy in the Philippines. The Culion Leper Colony, 1921–1927, Lanham, Md., University Press of America, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 219, $20.20 ($10.25 paperback).

Mark M. Ravitch, A century of surgery. The history of the American Surgical Association, Philadelphia and Toronto, J. B. Lippincott; London, Harper & Row, 1981, 2 vols., 4to, pp. xliii, 817; viii, 818-1613, £135.00 per set.

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Index

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Infantile hysteria and infantile sexuality in late nineteenth-century German-language medical literature

New light on some Harvey portraits *. In memoriam Sir Geoffrey Keynes

Book Review

Teizo Ogawa (editor), Public Health, (Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Comparative History of Medicine - East and West), Tokyo, Taniguchi Foundation, 1981, 8vo, pp. vi, 189, $38.50.

G. Maloney and R. Savoie, Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique (1473–1982), Quebec, Editions du Sphinx, 1982, 8vo, pp. v, 289, $Cdn.30.00.

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MDH volume 27 supplement 3 front matter

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Jean-Pierre Goubert (editor), La medicalisation de la societe franqaise 1770–1830, Waterloo, Ontario, Historical Reflections Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. 304, $Cdn.19.00 ($8.00 paperback).

Trevor H. Levere (editor), Editing texts in the history of science and medicine (Papers given at the 7th annual conference on editorial problems, 1981), New York, Garland Publishing Co., 1982, 8vo, pp. 190, illus., $17.00.

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The identification of kala-azar and the discovery of Leishmania Donovani

Book Review

W. J. Sheils (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), OxfordBasil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50.

Dorothy Roller Wiswall, A comparison of selected poetic and scientific works of Albrecht von Haller, afterword by Otto G. Graf, (Germanic Studies in America, no. 43), Berne, Peter Lang, 1981, 8vo, pp. 430, SFr. 79.00.

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Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: Sir Leonard Rogers, FRS (1868–1962) and his papers *

Book Review

William Harvey, Disputations touching the generation of animals, translated, with introduction and notes, by Gweneth Whitteridge, Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1981, 8vo, pp. lxvi, 502, £25.00

Walter Pagel, Paracelsus. An introduction to philosophical medicine in the era of the Renaissance, 2nd rev. ed., Basle, Karger, 1982, 8vo, pp. xii, 404, illus., SFr. 139.00.

Christopher J. Maggs, The origins of general nursing, London, Croom Helm, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 183, £12.95.

Jacques Postel, Genèse de la psychiatrie. Les premiers écrits de Philippe Pinel, Paris, Le Sycomore, 1981, 8vo, pp. 312, [no price stated].

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Book Review

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New light on some Harvey portraits*. In memoriam Sir Geoffrey Keynes

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Book Review

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Book Review

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Book Review

New light on some Harvey portraits *. In memoriam Sir Geoffrey Keynes