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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 30 - Issue 4 - October 1986

Editorial

Fifty Years of the Welcome Trust

Thoughts on the Wellcome Trust 1963–82

Articles

Sir Henry Wellcome's museum for the science of history

Constructing the medical élite in France: The Creation of the Royal Academy of Medicine 1814–20

The manuscript lecture-notes of Alexander Monro primus (1697–1767)

Obituary

Charles Bernard Schmitt (1933–86)

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

A. R. Hall and B. A. Bembridge, Physic andphilanthropy. A history ofthe Wellcome Trust 1936–1986, with a foreword by Sir David Steel, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. 462, [price to be decided].

Book Review

J. K. Aronson, An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785–1985, Oxford University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 399, £25.00.

Robert Austrian, Life with the pneumococcus. Notes from the bedside, laboratory, and library, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xi, 168, £25.00.

Gladys L. Hobby, Penicillin: meeting the challenge, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxii, 319, illus., £30.00.

Glenn Gritzer and Arnold Arluke, The making of rehabilitation. A political economy ofmedical specialization, 1890–1980, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, University of California Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 214, £27.50.

Claude Bernard, Memoir on the pancreas and on the role of pancreatic juice in digestive processes, translated by John Henderson, London, Academic Press, 1985, 4to, pp. x, 131, illus., [no price stated].

Kitti Jurina, Vom Quacksalber zum Doctor Medicinae, Cologne and Vienna, Bohlau Verlag, 1984, 4to, pp. ix, 331, illus., DM. 168.00

Richard Pankhurst, The history of famine and epidemics in Ethiopia prior to the twentieth century, London Central Books (for Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Addis Ababa), 1986, 8vo, pp. 120, illus., £2.50 (paperback).

Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald I. Numbers (editors), Sickness and health in America. Readings in the history of medicine and public health, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, 4to, pp. x, 550, $32.50 ($14.95 paperback).

Edward Babayan, The structure of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, New York, International Universities Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. ix, 336, illus., $40.00.

Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of change. Five plants that transformed mankind, London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985, 8vo, pp. x, 245, illus., £15.00.

Juan A. Del Regato, Radiologicalphysicists, New York, American Institute of Physics for the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 1985, 4to, pp. v, 188, illus., $25.00.

A. Z. Iskandar, A descriptive list of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science at the University of California, Los Angeles, Leiden, Brill, 1984, 8vo, pp. xiv, 119 illus., DF1.48.00.

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Volume 30 - Issue 4 - October 1986

Editorial

Articles

Obituary

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Book Review