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Volume 35 - 1991

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Piero Camporesi, Bread of dreams:food andfantasy in early modern Europe, transl. David Gentilcore, Oxford, Polity Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. 212, £19.50.

Marie-Christine Pouchelle, The body and surgery in the Middle Ages, transl. Rosemary Morris, Cambridge and Oxford, Polity Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. vii, 276, illus., £35.00.

Arion Roşu, Gustave Liétard et Palmyr Cordier: Travaux sur l'histoire de la médecine indienne. Un demi-siècle de recherches āyurvèdiques, Paris, College de France, Institut de Civilisation Indienne, 1989, 8vo, pp. cxxi, 615, Ffr. 500 (paperback).

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Berengario Da Carpi, On fracture of the skull or cranium, transl. L. R. Lind, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society vol 80, pt. 4, Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1990, 8vo, pp. xxv, 164, illus., $20.00 (paperback).

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Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institutefor the History ofMedicine, London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1989, 4to, pp. xiii, 112, illus., £15.00.

Mirko D. Grmek, La première révolution biologique: réflexions sur la physiologie et la médecine du XVIFe siècle, Paris, Payot, 1990, 8vo, pp. 358, (paperback).

John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott, Herbal medicine past and present, vol. 1, Trying to give ease, 8vo, pp. x, 335, $35.00, vol. 2, A reference guide to medicinalplants, 8vo, pp. 549, illus., $59.50, $19.95 (paperback), Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1990.

Carlos G. Norena, Juan Luis Vives and the emotions, Philosophical Explorations, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xviii, 273, $35.00.

Tony Hunt, Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1990,8vo, pp. xi, 466, £39.50.

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, On the movement of animals, trans. Paul Maquet, Berlin, Springler-Verlag, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 469, illus., DM 248.00.

John Walter and Roger Schofield (eds.), Famine, disease and the social order in early modern society, Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time 10, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiv, 335, £35.00, $49.50.

Paul Potter, Gilles Maloney, and Jacques Desautels (Eds), La maladie et les maladies dans la Collection Hippocratique, Actes du VIe Colloque International Hippocratique (Quebec, 28 Sept.-3 Oct. 1987), Quèbec, Èditions du Sphinx, 1990, 8vo, pp. 465, Can $30.00 (paperback).

A. Rupert Hall, Henry More: magic, religion and experiment, Blackwell Science Biographies, Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. xii, 304, £30.00 (0-631-17295-5).

François Du Port, The decade ofmedicine or The physician ofthe rich and the poor in which all the signs, causes and remedies of disease are clearly expounded, ed. H. Diehl and Georg Hartmann, Heidelberg, Springer, 1988, 12mo, pp. v, 216, DM 64.00.

Thomas Laqueur, Making sex: body and gender from the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xiv, 313, illus., £19.95.

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