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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 32 - 1988

Book Review

Vincent Quinn and John Prest (editors), Dear Miss Nightingale, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xxxvii, 359, £35.00.

William Coleman, Yellowfever in the north. The methods of early epidemiology, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 8vo, pp.xvi, 202, illus., $45.00 ($19.95 paperback).

Daniel De Moulin, A history of surgery, with emphasis on the Netherlands, Dordrecht Boston and Lancaster, Martinus Nijdhoff, 1988, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 408, illus., [no price stated].

Alick Cameron (editor). A surgeon's India. Diaries of Lt. Col. Alexander Cameron, O.B.E., Indian Medical Service, Tunbridge Wells, Acclaim [for the author], 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 424, illus., £10.75 + postage.

E. H. Burrows, Pioneers and early years. A history of British radiology, Alderney, Colophon, 1986, 4to, pp. viii, 264, illus., £32.50.

J. M. H. Moll, The Heberden Society: histories, portraits and biographies, London, Chapman and Hall Medical for the British Society for Rheumatology, 1987, 4to, pp. xxxii, 381, illus., £35.00 plus postage and packing from The British Society for Rheumatology, 41 Eagle Street, London WCl R4AR, UK.

Mats Rydén The English plant names in The Grete Herball (1526). A contribution to the historical study of English plant-name usage, (Stockholm Studies in English LXI), Uppsala, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1984, 8vo, pp. 110, [no price stated].

L. J. Rather, Patricia Rather and John B. Frerichs, Johannes Müller and the nineteenth-century origins of tumour cell theory, Canton MA, Science History Publications, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 193, illus., $15.00.

Michael M. Sokal (editor), Psychological testing and American society 1890–1930, New Brunswick and London, Rutgers University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. ix. 205, $28.00.

Nicholaas A. Rupke (editor), Vivisection in historicalperspective, London, Croom Helm, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 373, illus., £45.00.

G. C. Ainsworth, Introduction to the history ofmedical and veterinary mycology, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 228, illus., £30.00.

Mary A. B. Brazier, A history of neurophysiology in the 19th century, New York, Raven Press, 1987, 4to, pp. xiv, 265, illus., $83.00.

Jennifer J. Carter and Joan H. Pittock (editors), Aberdeen and the Enlightenment, Aberdeen University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. x, 438, illus., £14.90 (paperback).

Deborah Dwork, War is goodfor babies and other young children: a history ofthe infant and child welfare movement in England 1898–1918, London and New York, Tavistock Publications, 1987, pp. 307, illus., £27.00.

Peter Zupan, Der Physiologe Carl Ludwig in Zürich 1849–1855, Zurcher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen no. 188, Zurich, Juris, 1987, 8vo, pp. 276, SFr. 60.00 (paperback).

John Dwyer, Virtuous discourse: sensibility and community in late eighteenth-century Scotland, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1987, 8vo, pp. viii, 204, £20.00.

W. Bruce Fye, The development of American physiology, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xi, 308, £26.55.

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