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Volume 20 - October 1976

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Michael Drake, Historical demography; problems and projects, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press, 1974, 4to, pp.160, illus., £3.95.

J. M. C. Toynbee, Animals in Roman life and art, London, Thames & Hudson, 1973, 8vo, pp. 431, illus., £6.75.

Jonathan Barnes, Malcolm Schofield, and Richard Sorabji (editors), Articles on Aristotle. L Science, London, Duckworth, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 224, £3.50 (paperback).

Esther Fischer-Homberger, Geschichte der Medizin (Heidelberger Taschenbuicher,Basistext Medizin), Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1975, pp. viii, 213, illus., [no price stated].

Stanley Rubin, Medieval English medicine, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1974, 8vo, pp. 232, illus., £6.50.

The influence of early Enlightenment thought upon German classical science and letters, New York, Science History Publications, 1972, pp. xii, 47, illus., $3.00.

Nellie B. Eales, The Cole Library of early medicine and zoology. Catalogue of books, monographs and principal papers. Part 2. 1800 to the present day and supplement to Part 1.Reading, The University Library, 1975, 4to, xviii, 428, illus., [no price stated].

Etienne Van De Walle, The female population of France in the nineteenth century. A reconstruction of eighty-two departements, Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xix, 483, illus., $21.50 (£1 1.30).

Jacques Barzun (editor), Burke and Hare; the resurrection men, etc., Metuchen, N. J., The Scarecrow Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xvi, 368, illus., £10.50.

Brian Watkin, Documents on health and social services, 1834 to the present day, London, Methuen, 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 468, £10.00 (£5.50 paperback).

Richard C. Dales, The scientific achievement of the Middle Ages, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973, 8vo, pp. ix, 182, illus., $12.50.

Leonard Barkan, Nature's work of art. The human body as image of the world, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 291, £7.50.

Jacques Barzun, Clio and the doctors. Psycho-history, quanto-history and history, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xi, 173, £4.35, $7.95.

Robert S. Kinsman (editor), The darker vision of the Renaissance. Beyond the fields of reason, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. [vi], 320, £6.50.

Walter I. Trattner, From Poor Law to welfare state; a history ofsocial welfare in America, London, Collier Macmillan, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 276, £4.50.

Hélène Metzger, Newton, Stahl, Boerhaave et la doctrine chimique, Paris, A. Blanchard, 1974, 8vo, pp. 332, Fr.32.

John D. Thompson and Grace Goldin, The hospital; a social and architectural history, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1975, 4to, pp. xxviii, 349, illus., £13.75.

A. B. Cobban, The medieval universities: their development and organisation, London, Methuen, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 264, £10.00.

James F. Giffordjr., The evolution of a medical center. A history of medicine at Duke University to 1941, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1972, 8vo, pp. [xi], 249, illus., $8.75.

Cyril BurtSir, ESP and psychology, edited by Anita Gregory, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975, 8vo, pp. vii, 179, £4.50.

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