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Volume 35 - 1991

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Vern Bullough, Bonnie Bullough, and Marietta P. Stanton (eds), Florence Nightingale and her era: a collection of new scholarship, New York and London, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi. 365, $50.00.

Jan Noordman, Om de kwaliteit van het nageslacht: eugenetica in Nederland 1900–1950, Nijmegen, SUN, 1989, 8vo, pp. 304, Dfl. 39.50.

Joan Austoker, A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902–1986, Oxford University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xvii, 375, illus., £40.00.

William Waugh, John Charnley: the man and the hip, Berlin, Springer, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi, 268, illus., DM 75.00.

Jonathan Liebenau, Gregory J. Higby, and Elaine C. Stroud (eds.), Pill Peddlers: essays on the history ofthe pharmaceutical industry, Madison, Wis., American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1990, 8vo, pp. vii, 133, illus., $9.95 (paperback).

W. J. O'Connor, British physiologists 1885–1914: a biographical dictionary, Manchester University Press, 1991, pp. xviii, 582, £55.00 (0-7190-3282-2).

Gerard L'E. Turner, The great age of the microscope: the Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years, Bristol and New York, Adam Hilger, 1989, 4to, pp. ix, 379, illus., £39.50.

Franz Ehring, Hautkrankenheiten: 5 Jahrhunderte wissenschaftlicher Illustration/Skin diseases: 5 centuries of scientific illustration, Stuttgart and New York, Gustav Fischer, 1989, 4to, pp. vii, 288, illus., DM 268.00.

Richard B. Welbourn, The history of endocrine surgery, with contributions by Stanley R. Friesen, Ivan D. A. Johnston, and Ronald A. Sellwood, New York, Praeger, 1990, 8vo, pp. xix, 385, illus., £52.50.

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Victoria A. Harden, Rocky Mountain spotted fever: history of a twentieth century disease, The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi, 375, illus., £28.50.

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Colin Wilson, Written in blood. a history offorensic detection, Wellingborough, Northants, Equation, 1989, 8vo, pp. 512, illus., £14.95.

H. Phillips, ‘Black October’: the impact of the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa, Pretoria, The Government Printer, 1990, 4to, pp. xix, 281, illus.

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Frank Danby, Dr Phillips: a Maida Vale idyll (1887), with an introduction by Stephen Lock, London, Keynes Press, British Medical Association, 1989, 8vo, pp. xii, 285, illus., £45.00, abroad £49.00, incl. (air) postage from BMJ (Keynes Press), PO Box 295, London WC1 H 9TE.

Ursula Weisser (ed.), 100 Jahre 1889-1989 Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Tübingen, Attempto, 1989, pp. 608, illus., DM 49.00.

Christopher Hoolihan (comp.), An annotated catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection, Rochester NY, Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1990, 8vo, pp. 95, illus., $35.00 (US & Canada), $40.00 (elsewhere), paperback.

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