Medical History: Volume 28 - Issue 3

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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 28 - Issue 3 - July 1984

Articles

The politics of medicine in Manchester, 1788–1792: hospital reform and public health services in the early industrial city

Water and the search for public health in London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Hector Gavin, MD, FRCSE (1815–1855) – his life, his work for the Sanitary Movement, and his accidental death in the Crimea

Six new Hill letters

A death from inoculated smallpox in the English Royal Family

An unknown Hebrew medical alchemist: a medieval treatise on the quinta essentia

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: A Jewish physician in the seventeenth century *

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K. Codell Carter (translator and editor), Ignaz Semmelweis: The etiology, concept, and prophylaxis of childbed fever, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 263, $35.00 ($10.95 paperback); £29.75 (£9.30 paperback).

David Armstrong, Political anatomy of the body. Medical knowledge in Britain in the twentieth century, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xii, 146, £17.50.

Kenneth Dewhurst, Hughlings Jackson on psychiatry, Oxford, Sandford Publications, 1982, 8vo, pp. xi, 169, £9.00.

Emil Kraepelin, Lebenserinnerungen, edited by H. Hippius, G. Peters, and D. Ploog, Berlin, Heidelberg, and New York, Springer, 1983, 8vo, pp. xiii, 290, DM. 39.00.

Jean Cantlie Stewart, The quality of mercy. The lives of Sir James and Lady Cantlie, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp. vii, 277, illus., £9.95.

Nelly Tsouyopoulos, Andreas Röschlaub und die Romantische Medizin. Die philosophischen Grundlagen der modernen Medizin, (Medizin in Geschichte und Kultur, ed. K. E. Rothschuh and R. Toellner, vol. 14), Stuttgart and New York, Fischer, 1982, 8vo, pp. viii, 259, DM. 58.00 (paperback).

Horace W. Davenport, Physiology 1850–1923. The view from Michigan, (Supplement to The Physiologist, vol. 24, no. 1, February 1982, 4to, pp. vii, 96, illus., $25.00.

Carole Haber, Beyond sixty-five. The dilemma of old age in America's past, Cambridge University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. ix, 181, £17.50.

Genevieve Miller (editor), Letters of Edward Jenner and other documents concerning the history of vaccination, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xxix, 145, £12·75.

Esther Fischer-Homberger, Medizin vor Gericht. Gerichismedizin von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung, Berne, Stuttgart, and Vienna, Hans Huber, 1983, 8vo, pp. 487, illus., SFr. 83.00/DM. 92.00.

Arthur E. Imhof (editor), Mensch und Gesundheit in der Geschichte (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, no. 39), Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1980, 8vo. pp. vii, 415, DM. 69.00 (paperback).

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