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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 21 - Issue 4 - October 1977

Articles

John Hutchinson, the inventor of the spirometer–his north country background, life in London, and scientific achievements

John Hutchinson in Australia and Fiji

A bibliography of John Hutchinson

The development of ideas on the cardiac and respiratory complications of spinal deformities

The first epidemic of Asiatic cholera in Lower Canada, 1832

William Butler (1535–1618): Further evidence on a physician between two ages

Obituary

Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, C.H., F.R.C.P

Book Reviews

Christian Andree, Rudolf Virchow als Prähistoriker, Band 1, Virchow als Begründer der neueren deutschen Ur- und Früh-geschichtswissenschaft, Band 2, Briefe Virchows und seiner Zeitgenossen, Cologne, Bohlau-Verlag, 1976, 8vo, pp. 267, 541, Bd. 1, DM.86; Bd. 2, DM.120.

Silvio A. Bedini, Thinkers and tinkers. Early American men of science, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975, 8vo, pp. xix, 520, illus., $17.50.

Edgar M. Bick (editor), Classics of orthopaedics, first series, Philadelphia, J. B. ippincott, (Oxford, Blackwell), 1976, 8vo, pp. xviii, 541, illus., £22.00.

S. T. Bindoff and James T. Boulton (editors), Research in progress in English and history in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, second edition, London, St. James Press, 1975, 8vo, pp. xii, 284, [no price stated].

Betsy C. Corner and Christopher C. Booth (editors), Chain offriendship. Selected letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1735–1780, Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press, 1971, gvo, pp. xxiv, 538, illus., £14.95.

Saul Jarcho (editor), Essays on the history of medicine selected from the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, Science History Publications, 1976, 8vo, pp. xi, 346, illus., £10.50.

René J. Dubos, The Professor, the Institute, and DNA, New York, Rockefeller University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. vii, 238, illus., $14.50.

Samuel Fastlicht, Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico, Berlin, “Die Quintessenz”, 1976, 8vo, pp. 164, illus., $42.00.

Marjorie Grene and Everett Mendelsohn (editors), Topics in the philosophy of biology Boston and Dordrecht, D. Reidel, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiii, 454, $39.50 ($19.50 paperback).

Harcourt Brown, Science and the human comedy. Natural philosophy in French literature from Rabelais to Maupertius, Toronto, University of Toronto Press,(London, Canada Books), 1976, 8vo, pp. xx, 223, illus., £10.50.

Wayland D. Hand (editor), American folk medicine. A symposium, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. viii, 347, illus., £10.35.

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