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Volume 1 - April 1957

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Letters of PurkynĚ

Joseph Dalby on the Bite of a Mad Dog, 1762

Pagine Di Storia Della Medicina

John Shaw Billings, Florence Nightingale and the Johns Hopkins Hospital

George Berkeley and Medicine

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The Life of Hugh Owen Thomas. David Le VayM.S., F.R.C.S., Orthopaedic Surgeon S.E. Metropolitan Region. Ediburgh: E. and S. Livingstone Ltd., 1956. Pp. 136. 13 plates (one coloured). 13 figs. 25s.

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The Polish Institute of Medical History

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Halsted of Johns Hopkins: The Man and his Men. Samuel James CroweM.D.. E. W. Stephens Publishing Company of Columbia, Missouri, 1957. Pp. 247. Illustrated. 37s. 6d.

Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals: An Anatomical Essay: by William Harvey. Translated from the original Latin by Kenneth J. Franklin, and now published for the Royal College of Physicians of London. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1957. PP. xii +209. Portrait. 175. 6d.

Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1855–1936. W. R. BettM.R.C.S. (Eng.). With a foreward by Lord Webb-Johnson. Edinburgh: E. and S. Livingstone Ltd., 1956. Pp. 100+viii. 6 plates 20s.

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La Médecine Hippocratique. DrCharles Lichtenthaeler (Etudes sur le Raisonnement Clinique). Editions de la Baconniére, Boudry, Neuchâtel, 1957. Pp. 144. 3 plates.

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Wellcome Medal and Prize in the History of Medicine University of Edinburgh

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MDH volume 1 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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The Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.By Charles Singer. London: Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd., 1956. Pp. x+80. Illustrated. Price 10s. 6d.

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Birthplace of the Hunters

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The Boke of Chyldren. Thomas Phaire. Edited by Prof A. V. NealeF.R.C.P., and H. R. E. Wallis M.D. Edinburgh: E. and S. Livingstone, 1955. Pp. 76. 7s. 6d.

English Historical Documents, 1833–1874 Edited by G. M. YoungM. A., D. Litt., and W.D. Handcock M.A., B.Litt London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1956. Pp. xxiii+1017. 95s.

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Medical History Congress Rio de Janeiro, 1957

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The Life, Work and Times of Charles Turner Thackrah, Surgeon and Apothecary of Leeds (1795–1833). A. Meiklejohn. Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1957. Pp. vii+so+238. 7 plates. 25s.

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