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Medical History

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Volume 31 - Issue 3 - July 1987

Articles

Optimistic analysis—chemical embryology in Cambridge 1920–42

Making a long story short: a note on men's height and mortality in England from the first through the nineteenth centuries

Obstetrical Research in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century

The meaning of fractures: orthopaedics and the reform of British hospitals in the inter-war period

A provincial surgeon and his obstetric practice: Thomas W. Jones of Henley-in-Arden, 1764–1846

A surgeon's private practice in the nineteenth century: Sir William Fergusson's Edinburgh day books 1832–39, with some extracts from his London day books 1839–77

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The Sami Haddad collection of Arabic medical manuscripts

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Harold. J. Cook, The decline of the old medical regime in Stuart London, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. 310, $32.95.

Fridolf Kudlien, Die Stellung des Arztes in der rdmischen Gesellschaft, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1986, 8vo, pp. vi, 228, DM 59.00 paperback.

Robert S. Gottfried, Doctors and medicine in medieval England, 1340–1530, Princeton, NJ, and Guildford, Surrey, Princeton University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvi, 359, illus., £30.00.

John Peel, William Blair-Bell—father and founder, London, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1986, 8vo, pp. iii, 89, illus., £6.00 + £1 postage.

Pierre Guillaume, Du désespoir au salut: les tuberculeux aux 19e et 20e siàcles, Paris, Aubier, 1986, 8vo, pp. 376, Fr. 175.00 (paperback).

Jean-Francois Braunstein, Broussais et le matériafisme. Médecine et philosophie au XIXe siècle, Paris, Meridiens Klincksieck, 1986, 8vo, pp. 326, Fr. 130.00 (paperback).

Greta Jones, Social hygiene in twentieth-century BritainLondon, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. 180, £25.00.

Jane Lewis, What price community medicine? The philosophy, practice and politics ofpublic health since 1919, Brighton, Wheatsheaf Books, 1986, 8vo, pp. vii, 172, £9.95.

Colin A. Russell, Lancastrian chemist. The early years of Sir Edward Frankland, Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 1986, 4to, pp.ix, 187, illus., £30.00.

A. Mcgehee Harvey ans Susan L. Abrams, “For the welfare of mankind”. The Commonwealth Fund and American medicine, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 696, £26.50.

Alexander Kohn, False prophets. Fraud and error in science and medicine, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, 8vo, pp. x, 226, £14.95.

Charles Marx (editor), Médecine, science et technique: recueild'études redigées àl'occasion du centenaire de la mort de Claude Bernard (1813–1878), Paris, tditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984, 8vo, pp. 130, Fr.60.00.

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