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Medical History

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Volume 28 - Issue 2 - April 1984

Articles

Mental health services in an English county borough before 1974

Rinderpest and mainstream infectious disease concepts in the eighteenth century

Dearth, diet, and disease in Ireland, 1850: a case study of nutritional deficiency

Tuberculosis and leprosy in antiquity: an interpretation

The introduction of a new sixteenth-century drug: terra Silesiaca

Haslam of “Bedlam”, Kitchiner of the “Oracles”: two doctors under mad King George III, and their friendship

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: Iconography of Dr William Kitchiner (1775?–1827)*

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E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, The population history of England 1541–1871. A reconstruction, London, Edward Arnold, 1981, 8vo, pp. xv, 779, £45.00.

Anthony S. Wohl, Endangered lives. Public health in Victorian Britain, London, J. M. Dent, 1983, 8vo, pp. viii, 440, illus., £17.50.

George D. Sussman, Selling mothers' milk. The wet-nursing business in France 1715–1914, Urbana, Chicago, and London, University of Illinois Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 310, £14.45.

G. E. R. Lloyd, Science, folklore and ideology: studies in the life sciences in Ancient Greece. Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. xi, 260, £25.00 (£8.95 paperback).

J. Büttner (editor), History of clinical chemistry, Berlin and New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1983, 4to, pp. 91, illus., DM. 98.00.

Karl Hufbauer, The formation of the German chemical community (1720–1795), Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 312, illus., £34.00 (£12.75 paperback).

John Farley, Gametes and spores. Ideas about sexual reproduction 1750–1914, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 299, £24.50.

Renate Smollich, Der Bisamapfel in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Stuttgart, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1983, 8vo, pp. x, 342, illus., DM 58.00 (paperback).

Harry F. Dowling, City hospitals: the undercare of the underprivileged, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. x, 245, £18.00.

Richard Palmer, The Studio of Venice and its graduates in the sixteenth century, Trieste, Edizioni Lint, 1983, 8vo, pp. xi, 204, L.20,000 (paperback).

William R. Woodward and Mitchell G. Ash (editors), The problematic science: psychology in nineteenth-century thought, New York, Praeger, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvii, 394, illus., $51.00.

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