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Volume 34 - 1990

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Vivian Nutton (ed.), Medicine at the courts of Europe, 1500–1837, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine, London and New York, Routledge, 1990, 8vo, pp. x, 301,£35.00.

Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the rise of civilization, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 285, £22.50, $35.00.

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Roy Porter and Dorothy Porter, In sickness and in health: the British experience, 1650–1850, London, Fourth Estate, 1988, 8vo, pp. 324, £25.00.

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Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern

Arthur Stanley Wohlmann, the first government balneologist in New Zealand

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Roger French and Andrew Wear (eds.), The medical revolution of the seventeenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. viii, 328, £35.00, $59.50.

Tony Hunt, Plant names of medieval England, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 1989, 8vo, pp. Ivi, 334, £35.00.

Hippocrates, vols. 5, 6, with an English translation by Paul Potter, The Loeb Classical Library 472, 473, Cambridge, Ma., Harvard University Press, London, William Heinemann, 1988, 12mo, (vol. 5) pp. xiv, 333, £9.95, (vol. 6), pp. xv, 361, £9.95.

Francis Zimmermann, The jungle and the aroma of meats: an ecological theme in Hindu medicine, Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care 20, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 254, $30.00.

John Sym, Lifes preservative against self-killing, with an Introduction by Michael MacDonald, Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. liii, 326, £29.95.

Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasset, Sexuality andmedicine in the Middle Ages, trans. Matthew Adamson, Oxford, Polity Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. vii, 242, illus., £27.50.

Heinrich Von Staden, Herophilus: the art of medicine in early Alexandria, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xliii, 666, £75.00, $140.00.

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The contradictions of specialization: rheumatism and the decline of the spa in inter-war Britain

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Whitfield J. BellJr., The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: a bicentennial history, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications USA, 1988, 8vo, pp. ix, 326, illus., $40.00

David B. Ruderman, Kabbalah, magic, and science: the cultural universe of a sixteenth century Jewish physician, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. viii, 232, £23.95.

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Michael Hunter, Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society, Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. xiv, 382, illus., £45.00, $86.00.

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