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Martin Dinges (ed.), Homöopathie: Patienten, Heilkundige, Institutionen: von den Anfängen bis heute, Heidelberg, Karl F Haug, 1996, pp. 371, illus., DM 49.80, SFr 45.00 (3-7760-1574-8).

Robin Marantz Henig, The people's health: a memoir of public health and its evolution at Harvard, Washington, DC, Joseph Henry Press, 1997, pp. x, 224, £24.95 (0-309-05942-3).

Chloe Chard and Helen Langdon (eds), Transports: travel, pleasure and imaginative geography, 1600–1800, Studies in British Art 3, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1996, pp. viii, 341, illus., £35.00 (0-300-06382-2).

Nicholas Orme and Margaret Webster, The English hospital, 1070–1570, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1995, pp. xii, 308, illus., £30.00 (0-300-06058-0).

Anthony Heilbut, Thomas Mann: Eros and literature, London, Papermac, 1997, pp. xiii, 638, illus., £12.00 (0-333-67447-2).

Tomas Plänkers, Michael Laier, Hans-Heinrich Otto, Hans-Joachim Rothe, Helmut Siefert (eds), Psychoanalyse in Frankfurt am Main. Zerstörte Anfänge, Wiederannäherung, Entwicklungen, Tübingen, Edition Diskord, 1996, pp. 798, illus., DM 90.00 (3-89295-602-2).

R S Bray, Armies of pestilence: the effects of pandemics on history, Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1996, pp. xiii, 258, £19.50 (0-7188-2949-2).

Nancy G Siraisi, The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine, Princeton University Press, 1997, pp. xiv, 361, illus., £37.50, $49.50 (hardback 0-91-01189-3).

Lilian R Furst (ed.), Women healers and physicians: climbing a long hill, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1997, pp. vii, 274, $34.95 (0-8131-201 1-X).

E J Dennison, A cottage hospital grows up: the story of the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, 2nd rev. ed., London, Baxendale Press, 1996, pp. 304, illus., £15.00 (0-9520-933-91).

Thomas Wharton's Adenographia, first published in London in 1656, translated by Stephen Freer, with an historical introduction by Andrew Cunningham, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996, pp. lxxxiii, 609, illus., £85.00 (0-19-854788-9).

Eileen Crofton, The women of Royaumont: a Scottish women's hospital on the western front, East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 1997, pp. xx, 347, illus., £17.99 (1-898410-86-0).

William Turner, A new herball, Parts II and III, eds George T L Chapman, Frank McCombie, Anne U Wesencraft, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 846, £125.00, $185,00 (0-521-44549-3).

John M Riddle, Eve's herbs: a history of contraception and abortion in the West, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. vii, 341, £26.50 (0-674-27024-X).

Leon Z Saunders, A biographical history of veterinary pathology, Lawrence, Kansas, Allen Press, 1996, pp. xviii, 590, illus., $83.00 (USA only), $88.00 (worldwide) (0-935868-84-4).

Leslie Morton and Robert J Moore, A chronology of medicine and related sciences, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1997, pp. 784, £75.00 (1-85928-215-6).

Ivan Garofalo (ed.), Anonymi medici: De morbis acutis et chroniis, transl. Brian Fuchs, Studies in Ancient Medicine vol. 12, Leiden and New York, E J Brill, 1997, pp. xxx, 375, Nlg. 178.50, $112.50 (90-04-10227-2).

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