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Volume 21 - October 1977

Articles

The anatomy department at University College, Dundee, 1888–1954

William Butler (1535–1618): Further evidence on a physician between two ages

Short Articles

J. J. Lister and the establishment of histology

Articles

The Lancet on the telephone 1876–1975

Talo-calcaneal bridging in an Anglo-Saxon

Texts and Documents

A letter of Edward Jenner (1749–1823)

Obituary

Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, C.H., F.R.C.P

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Proceedings of the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, Session 1975–76

Book Reviews

H. R. Denham (compiler), A catalogue ofprinted books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, Volume III: Books printed from 1641 to 1850, F-L, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1976, 4to, pp. xvi, 565, £25.00 ($55.00).

Christian Andree, Rudolf Virchow als Prähistoriker, Band 1, Virchow als Begründer der neueren deutschen Ur- und Früh-geschichtswissenschaft, Band 2, Briefe Virchows und seiner Zeitgenossen, Cologne, Bohlau-Verlag, 1976, 8vo, pp. 267, 541, Bd. 1, DM.86; Bd. 2, DM.120.

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A historical note on influenza in Ethiopia

News, Notes and Queries

News, Notes and Queries

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Robert Forster and Orest Ranum (editors), Biology of man in history. Selections from the Annales Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. x, 205, illus., £6.60 (£1.65 paperback).

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, On the properties of things. John Trevisa's translation of … De proprietatibus rerum. A critical text, edited by M. C. Seymour et al., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1975, 2 vols. (of 3), pp. xix, 1397, £30 the set.

Ming Wong, La médecine chinoise par les plantes, Paris, Editions Tchou, 1976, 8vo, pp. 284, illus., [no price stated].

Silvio A. Bedini, Thinkers and tinkers. Early American men of science, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975, 8vo, pp. xix, 520, illus., $17.50.

Daphne Du Maurier, The winding stair. Francis Bacon, his rise and fall, London, Gollancz, 1976, pp. 245, illus., £6.50.

David Elliston Allen, The naturalist in Britain. A social history, London, Allen Lane, 1976, 8vo, pp. xii, 292, illus., £9.00.

Edgar M. Bick (editor), Classics of orthopaedics, first series, Philadelphia, J. B. ippincott, (Oxford, Blackwell), 1976, 8vo, pp. xviii, 541, illus., £22.00.

Michael Mcvaugh, Arnaldi de Villanova Aphorismi de Gradibus, Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica omni, II, Barcelona, Granada, Seminarium Historiae Medicae Granatensis, 1975, pp. xiv, 338, $18.00.

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