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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 32 - Issue 1 - January 1988

Articles

Hysteria at the Edinburgh Infirmary: The construction and treatment of a disease, 1770–1800

A jury of matrons

Lunatics and idiots: Mental disability, the community, and the poor law in North-East England, 1600–1800

The origins of the English drug “scene” 1890–1930

‘Discourses on the Human Physiology’ by Alexander Monro primus (1697–1767)

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Reviews

W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter (editors), Medicalfringe and medical orthodoxy 1750–1850, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 274, £30.00.

Book Review

Phillipa Mein Smith, Maternity in Dispute. New Zealand 1920–1939, Wellington, New Zealand, Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvii, 180, illus., $14.95.

Bert E. Park, The impact of illness on world leaders, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 373, £22.00

Vincenzo Di Benedetto, II medico e la malattia: la scienza di Ippocrate, Turin, Einaudi, 1986, 8vo, pp. xii, 302, L.24.000 (paperback).

David Hamilton, The monkey gland affair, London, Chatto & Windus, 1986, 8vo, pp. xvi, 155, illus., £11.95.

K. F. Russell, British anatomy 1525–1800. A bibliography of works published in Britain, America, and on the Continent, 2nd ed., Winchester, St Paul's Bibliographies, 1987, 8vo, pp. xlix, 245, illus. £38.00.

Randolph Shipley Klein (editor), Science and society in early America: essays in honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1986, 8vo, pp. 426, $30.00.

Robert Woods and John Woodward (editors), Urban disease and mortality in nineteenth-century England, London, Batsford, 1984, 8vo, pp. 255, £19.95.

J. R. Smith, The speckled monster. Smallpox in England, 1670–1970, with special reference to Essex, Chelmsford, Essex Record Office, 1987, 8vo, pp. 217, illus., £14.95.

Negley Harte, The University of London 1836–1986. An illustrated history, London, Athlone Press, 1986, 4to, pp. 303, illus., £11.95 (£4.95 paperback).

William Coleman, Yellowfever in the north. The methods of early epidemiology, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, 8vo, pp.xvi, 202, illus., $45.00 ($19.95 paperback).

Alick Cameron (editor). A surgeon's India. Diaries of Lt. Col. Alexander Cameron, O.B.E., Indian Medical Service, Tunbridge Wells, Acclaim [for the author], 1986, 8vo, pp. xi, 424, illus., £10.75 + postage.

Mats Rydén The English plant names in The Grete Herball (1526). A contribution to the historical study of English plant-name usage, (Stockholm Studies in English LXI), Uppsala, Almqvist and Wiksell, 1984, 8vo, pp. 110, [no price stated].

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