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Volume 27 - 1983

Book Review

Srboljub Zivanovic, Ancient diseases. The elements of palaeopathology, trans. by Lovett F. Edwards, London, Methuen, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxii, 285, illus., £17.50.

John Lyon and Phillip R. Sloan, From natural history to the history of nature. Readings from Buffon and his critics, Notre Dame, Ind., and London, University of Notre Dame Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiv, 406, illus., [no price stated].

Martin V. Melosi (editor), Pollution and reform in American cities, 1870–1930, Austin and London, University of Texas Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xii, 212, $15.00.

Iris H. W. Engstrand, Spanish scientists in the New World. The eighteenth-century expeditions, Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xiv, 220, illus., £17.50.

Vincent Brome, Ernest Jones: Freud's alter ego, London, Caliban Books, 1982, 8vo, pp. vii, 250, illus., £12.00.

Nancy M. Frieden, Russian physicians in an era of reform and revolution: 1856–1905, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xvii, 378, illus., £22.80.

John Thorne Crissey and Lawrence Charles Parish, The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century, New York, Praeger, 1981, 8vo, pp. viii, 439, illus., [no price stated].

Rudolf Schumacher, Die Musik in der Psychiatrie des 19. Jahrhunderts, (Marburger Schriften zur Medizingeschichte, No. 4), Frankfurt a.M. and Berne, Peter Lang, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 191, SFr. 49.00 (paperback).

Paul Saunders, Edward Jenner. The Cheltenham years 1795–1823. Being a chronicle of the vaccination campaign, Hanover, N.H., and London, University Press of New England, 1982, 8vo, pp. xviii, 469, illus., £19.25.

Vivian Nutton (editor), Galen: problems and prospects. A collection ofpapers submitted at the 1979 Cambridge conference, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1982, 8vo, pp. iii, 281, £13.00 (£14.00 overseas).

Dieter Jetter, Wien von den Anfangen bis um 1900 (Geschichte des Hospitals, vol. 5), Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 159, illus., DM 64.00 (paperback).

Patricia O'Brien, The promise of punishment. Prisons in nineteenth-century France, Princeton, N.J., and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xiii, 330, illus., £21.20.

Francois Duchesneau, La physiologie des lumières. Empiricisme, modèles et théories, The Hague, Boston, and London, Martinus Nijhoff, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxi, 511, Dfl. 1 85.00/$97.00.

James Harvey Young (editor), The early years of federal food and drug control, Madison, Wis., American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1982, 8vo, pp. 60, illus., $4.90 (paperback).

Marie-Helene Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine, Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1981, 8vo, pp. x, 409, [no price stated], (paperback).

Kenneth F. Kiple and Virginia H. King, Another dimension to the black Diaspora. Diet, disease, and racism, Cambridge University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xix, 295, £20.00.

Antoine Thivel, Cnide et Cos? Essai sur les doctrines medicales dans la Collection Hippocratique, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1981, 8vo, pp. 435, [no price stated], (paperback).

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