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Volume 23 - Issue 4 - October 1979

Articles

John Caius and the Linacre tradition

Educating the blind in the age of enlightenment. Growing points of a social service

Tarantism

Nature's contraceptive. Wet-nursing and prolonged lactation: the case of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, 1578–1601 1

Mortality and medical care in nineteenth-century Glasgow

Texts and Documents

Physicians and surgeons in sixteenth-century Venice

Short Articles

A note on the anatomical accessus of the Middle Ages

A satire on the influenza of 1803

Physiological apparatus in the Wellcome Museum. 3. Early sphygmomanometers

Rabaut-Pommier, a neglected precursor of Jenner

Book Reviews

Margaret Pelling, Cholera, fever and English medicine, Oxford University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 342, £7.50.

Hans-Reiner Simon, Die Bibliographie der Biologie. Eine analytische Darstellung unter wissenschaftshistorischen und informationstheoretischen Gesichtspunkten, Stuttgart, Anton Hiersemann, 1977, 8vo, pp. x, 315, DM.150.

Arthur E. Imhof(editor), Biologie des Menschen in der Geschichte: Beitrdge zur Socialgeschichte der Nauzeit aus Frankreich und Skandinavien, Stuttgart, Frommann-Holzboog, 1978, 8vo, pp. 421, [no price stated].

Edwin Hartman, Substance, body and soul: Aristotelian investigations, Princeton University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xi, 292, £11.80.

Gary Werskey, The visible college. A collective biography of British scientists and socialists of the 1930s, London, Allen & Unwin, 1978, 8vo, pp. 376, £10.00.

Wesley W. Spink, Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Folkestone, Dawson, 1978, 8vo, pp. xx, 577, illus., 22.50.

Gerald W. Hartwig and K. David Patterson (editors), Disease in African history, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xiv, 258, $13.75.

Henry Cornelius Agrippa, His fourth book of occult philosophy, facsimile of 1655 edition, with introduction by Stephen Skinner, London, Askin Publishers, 1978, 8vo, pp. xvi, 217 [facsimile], illus., limited leatherbound edition, [no pricestated].

George M. Foster and Barbara Gallatin Anderson, Medical anthropology, Chichester, John Wiley, 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 354, £9.75

William Baker, The George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Library. An annotated catalogue of their books at Dr. Williams's Library, London, New York and London,Garland Publishing, 1977, 8vo, pp. lxix, 300, illus., $35.00.

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