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Volume 31 - January 1987

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Mira Crouch and Bernd Huppauf (editors), Essays on mortality, Sydney, University of New South Wales (Faculty of Arts), 1985, 8vo, pp. xiii, 190, no price stated (paperback).

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Wolfgang Genshorek, Wegbereiter der Chirurgie, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach—Theodor Billroth, Leipzig, Teubner, 1983, 8vo, pp. 252, M.19.80.

John Douglas, Medical topography of Upper Canada, reprint of 1819 ed., with introduction by C. G. Roland, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications, 1986, 8vo, pp. xii 45, $9.95.

Thomas J. Deeley, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen-his life and the new kind of rays, Cardiff, Tenovus Cancer Information Centre (11 Whitchurch Road, Cardiff CF4 3JN), 8vo, pp. 79, illus., £2.50 (including postage).

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David Pingree (editor), Picatrix. The Latin version of the Ghāyat al-hakīm, (Studies of the Warburg Institute, vol. 39), London, Warburg Institute, 1986, 8vo, pp. lxxxi, 326 + 7 microfiche, illus., £40.00.

James D. Hardy, The world of surgery 1945–1985. Memoirs of one participant, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 385, illus., £29.95.

Christopher Lawrence and Ghislaine Lawrence, No Laughing Matter. Historical aspects of anaesthesia (Exhibition catalogue), London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1987, 4to, pp. 84, £5.00 paperback.

John Knott, Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law, London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. 284, £19.95.

Ronald W. Clark, The life of Ernst Chain-penicillin and beyond, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985, 8vo, pp.x, 217, illus., £14.95.

Vivien T. Thomas, Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery. Vivien Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xx, 245, illus., £29.95.

Pieter Spierenburg (editor), The emergence of carceral institutions: prisons, galleys and lunatic asylums 1550–1900, (Centrum voor Maatschappij Geschiedenis, 12), Rotterdam, Erasmus Universiteit, 1984, 8vo, pp. 187, [no price stated] (paperback).

Rudolf Virchow, Medizin und Naturwissenschaft. Zwei Reden 1845, with introduction by Werner Scheler, Berlin DDR, Akademie Verlag, 1986, 8vo, pp. 80, M.30.00.

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S. E. D. Shortt, Victorian lunacy. Richard M. Bucke and the practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvi, 207, £25.00.

Joseph C. Porter, Paper medicine man. John Gregory Bourke and his American West, Norman and London, University of Oklahoma Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xviii, 362, illus., $22 95.

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