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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 31 - Issue 1 - January 1987

Research Article

Insanity and its treatment in Islamic society 1

Medicine and pneumatology: Henry More, Richard Baxter, and Francis Glisson's Treatise on the Energetic Nature of Substance

The history of the therapeutic use of crude penicillin

The milk option. An aspect of the history of the infant welfare movement in England 1898–1908

Archibald Pitcairne and Newtonian medicine

Some perceptions of mental disorder in pre-Petrine Russia

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News, Notes, and Queries

Book Review

A Vision of History: The wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. An exhibition to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wellcome Trust, 1 September 1986 to 10 April 1987.

Roy Porter (editor), Patients andpractitioners. Lay perceptions of medicine in pre-industrial society, Cambridge University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. vi, 356, £27.50.

Jean Théodoridès, Histoire de la rage. Cave canem, with preface by P. Lépine, Paris, Masson, 1986, 8vo, pp. 289, illus., Fr. 200.00 (paperback).

Daniel Panzac, La peste dans l'empire Ottomon 1700–1850, Louvain, Editions Peeters, 1985, 8vo, pp. 659, FB.2580 (paperback).

Anne Digby, Madness, morality and medicine. A study of the York Retreat 1796–1914, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 323, illus., £27.50.

Rudolf Virchow, Collected essay's on public health and epidemiology, edited and with a foreword by L. J. Rather, editing translator, Anne Gisemann, Canton, Mass., Science History Publications, 1985, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xviii, 1232, $50.00.

Phil Brown, The transfer of care. Psychiatric deinstitutionalization and its afiermath, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 275, £19.95.

Wilfred Trotter, Instincts of the herd in peace and war 1916–1919, with introduction by Douglas Holdstock, London, Keynes Press, 1985, 4to, pp. xxviii, 202, £45.00.

Thomas Rogers Forbes, Surgeons at the Bailey. English forensic medicine to 1878, New Haven, Conn., and London, Yale University Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xiii, 255, illus., £20.00.

Monica E. Baly. Florence Nightingale and the nursing legacy, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. vi, 237, £22.50.

Peter Murray Jones, Medieval medical miniatures, London, The British Library in association with the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984, 4to, pp. 144, illus., £12.95.

Rosemary White, The effects of the NHS on the nursing profession 1948–61, Oxford University Press for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1985, 8vo, pp. xix, 322, £25.00.

John Scarborough (editor), Symposium on Byzantine medicine (Dumbarton Oaks Papers, no. 38), Baltimore, Md., Dumbarton Oaks Publishing Service, 1985, 4to, pp. xvi, 282, illus., $40.00.

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