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Medical History

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Volume 22 - Issue 2 - April 1978

Book Reviews

E. M. Thornton, Hypnotism, hysteria and epilepsy. An historical synthesis, London, Heinemann Medical Books, 1976, 8vo, pp. vii, 205, illus., £5.95.

Clarence Maloney (editor), The evil eye, New York Columbia University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xix, 335, illus., $18.75.

E. William Monter, Witchcraft in France and Switzerland. The borderlands during the Reformation, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. 232, illus., £12.00.

George M. Baer (editor), The natural history of rabies, 2 vols., New York and London, Academic Press, 1975, 8vo, vol. 1: pp. xvi, 454, illus., £31.60; vol. 2: pp. xvi, 387, illus., £27.35.

V. B. Wigglesworth, Insects and the life of man. Collected essays on pure science and applied biology, London, Chapman & Hall, 1976, 8vo, pp. vi, 217. illus., £3.25 (paperback).

George M. Kren and Leon H. Rappoport (editors), The varieties of psychohistory, New York, Springer, 1976, 8vo, pp. [xii], 370, $15.95 ($8.50 paperback).

Peter N. Stearns, Old age in European society. The case of France, London, Croom Helm, 1977, 8vo, pp. 163, £6.95.

Gordon Wolstenholme and John F. Kerslake, The Royal College of Physicians of London. Portraits II, Amsterdam, Oxford, and New York, Excerpta Medica, 1977, 4to, pp. viii, 239, illus., $24.00, Dfl.50.00.

The Journal of Physiology, December 1976, 263: 1–71, 1P-229P, £6.00.

Erna Lesky, The Vienna Medical School in the nineteenth century, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xv, 604, illus., £16.00.

David Knight, The nature of science. The history of science in Western culture since 1600, London, A. Deutsch, 1976, 8vo, pp. 215, £4.95.

David Knight, Sources for the history of science 1660–1914, Cambridge University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. 223, £7.00 (£3.00 paperback).

John Redwood (editor), European science in the seventeenth century, Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1977, 8vo, pp. 208, illus., £6.50.

G. L'E. Turner (editor), The patronage of science in the nineteenth century, Leyden, Noordhoff, 1976, 8vo, pp. vi, 218, DIR.40.00.

Colin A. Russell, with Noel G. Coley and Gerrylyn K. Roberts, Chemists by profession. The origins and rise of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press, in association with The Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1977, 8vo, pp. x, 342, illus., £9.50.

Journal for the History of Arabic Science, vol. 1, 1977, 2 issues per annum (spring and autumn), $6.00 per annum.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic science. An illustrated study, [London], World of Islam Festival Publishing Co. (distributors: Thorsons, Northants), 1976, 4to, pp. xiv, 273, illus., £12.50.

Donald L. Padgitt, A short history of the early American microscopes, London, Microscope Publications, 1975, 8vo, pp. xi, 147, illus., £3.75.

D. V. Glass and Roger Revelle (editors), Population and social change, London, Edward Arnold, 1972, 8vo, pp. viii, 520, £12.00.

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