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Volume 21 - October 1977

Book Reviews

G. Reichel-Dolmatoff, The shaman and the jaguar. A study of narcotic drugs among the Indians of Columbia, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xxi, 280, illus., $15.00.

Fred W. Voget, A history of ethnology, New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 879, [no price stated].

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MDH volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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Jean Lindsay, The Scottish poor law. Its operation in the north-east from 1745 to 1845, Ilfracombe, A. H. Stockwell, 1975, 8vo, pp. 265, £2.50.

Pamela Dixon, Ginseng, London, Duckworth, 1976, 8vo, pp. 101, illus., £3.95 (95p paperback).

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MDH volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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G. D. Hargreaves (compiler), A catalogue of medical incunabula in Edinburgh libraries, Edinburgh, Royal Medical Society, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 54, [no price stated].

André Armengaud, Lafamille et l'enfant en France et en Angleterre du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Aspects démographiques, Paris, Société d' Édition d'Enseignement SupÉrieur, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 193, [no price stated].

Hans Flück, Medicinal plants, translated by J. M. Rowson, London, W. Foulsham, 1976, 8vo, pp. 188, illus., £2.95. - F. Mitton and V. Mitton, Mitton's practical modern herbal, London, W. Foulsham, 1976, 8vo, pp. 134, illus., £2.95.

Vera Rubin (editor), Cannabis and culture, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 598, illus., $24.95. - Timothy H. H. Thoresen (editor), Toward a science of man. Essays in the history of anthropology, The Hague and Paris, Mouton, 1975, 8vo, pp. xiv, 232, $14.95.

Oliver W. Sacks, Awakenings, Harmondsworth, Middx., Penguin Books, 1976, 8vo, pp. 344, illus., £1.00 (paperback).

Richard Saunders, Poor Richard; the almanacks for the years 1733–1758…New York and London, Paddington Press, 1976, 4to, pp. xiii, 300, illus., £7.95.

Gerald Holton and William Blanpied (editors), Science and its public; the changing relationship, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxv, 289 [no price stated].

Ian B. Cowan and David E. Easson, Medieval religious houses in Scotland with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man, 2nd ed., London, Longman, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 246, 3 11., four maps, [no price stated].

Francis Hitching, Earth magic, London, Cassell, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 196, illus., £4.50.

George F. Hourani (editor), Essays on Islamic philosophy and science, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. viii, 261, $30.00.

A. Landsborough Thomson, Half a century of medical research, volume 2, The programme of the Medical Research Council (U.K.), London, H.M.S.O., 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 402, illus., £10.00.

Edward Shorter, The making of the modern family, London, Collins, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiv, 369, £4.50.

Harry Keen and John Jarrett (editors), Triumphs of medicine, London, P. Elek, 1976, fo., pp. 193, illus., £12.50.

Magdalena Sololoska, Jacek Holowka and Antonina Ostrowska (editors), Health, medicine, society, Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 516, $39.50.

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