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Volume 51 - Issue 2 - 01 April 2007

Articles

Robert Boyle's Memoirs for the Natural History of Human Blood (1684): Print, Manuscript and the Impact of Baconianism in Seventeenth-Century Medical Science

Mechanistic Pathology and Therapy in the Medical Assayer of Marcello Malpighi

Johann Heinrich Cohausen (1665–1750), Salt Iatrochemistry, and Theories of Longevity in his Satire, Hermippus Redivivus (1742)

Emil Behring's Medical Culture: From Disinfection to Serotherapy

Heredity and Alcoholism in the Medical Sphere: The Netherlands, 1850–1900

Illustrations from the Wellcome Library

A Persian Anatomical Image in a non-Muslim Manuscript from Gujarat

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Basle, Printing, and the Early Modern Intellectual World

Book Reviews

Guenter B Risse, New medical challenges during the Scottish Enlightenment, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, Clio Medica 78, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2005, pp. vi, 386, €80.00, $108.00 (hardback 90-420-1814-3).

Helen M Dingwall, ‘A famous and flourishing society’: the history of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1505–2005, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. xxiii, 336, illus., £25.00 (hardback 0-7486-1567-9).

Asa Briggs, A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London, vol. 4, 1948–1983, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xii, 486, illus., £60.00 (hardback 0-19-925334-X).

Esteban Rodríguez Ocaña, Salud pública en España. Ciencia, profesión y política, siglos XVIII–XX, Universidad de Granada, 2005, pp. 258, €17.00 (paperback 84-338-3627-7).

Marie-France Vouilloz-Burnier and Vincent Barras, De l'hospice au réseau santé: santé publique et systèmes hospitaliers valaisans XIXe–XXe siècles, Sierre, Editions Monographic, 2004, pp. 441, illus., €32.00 (paperback 2-88341-109-3).

Stephanie J Snow, Operations without pain: the practice and science of anaesthesia in Victorian Britain, Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xii, 271, £50.00 (hardback 1-4039-3445-2).

W D A Smith, Henry Hill Hickman, Sheffield, History of Anaesthesia Society, 2005, pp. 80, illus., £10.00 + p&p (paperback 0-901100-59-5). Orders to: Dr Adrian Padfield, 351 Fulwood Road, Sheffield S10 3BQ.

Henry Guly, A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948–2004, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. xviii, 183, £45.00 (hardback 1-4039-4715-5).

Thomas Schlich and Ulrich Tröhler (eds), The risks of medical innovation: risk perception and assessment in historical context, Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. xv, 291, illus., £80.00 (hardback 0-415-33481-0).

Daniel Callahan and Angela A Wasunna, Medicine and the market: equity v. choice, Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, pp. x, 320, £23.50, $35.00 (hardback 0-8018-8339-3).

Albrecht Burkardt, Les clients des saints: maladie et quête du miracle à travers les procès de canonisation de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle en France, Collection de l'Ecole Française de Rome, Rome, Ecole Française de Rome, 2004, pp. viii, 623, €66.00 (paperback 2-7283-0681-8).

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Volume 51 - Issue 2 - 01 April 2007

Articles

Illustrations from the Wellcome Library

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Book Reviews