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Medical History

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Volume 23 - Issue 3 - July 1979

Articles

The French medical profession's perception of its social function between 1776 and 1830

Alexis Carrel and the mysticism of tissue culture

Europe's discovery of the Ethiopian taenicide–kosso

The Southern Retreat, Thomas Hodgkin, and Achille-Louis Foville

Sanitation, intestinal infections, and infant mortality in late Victorian Sydney

Short Articles

Charles Collingnon (1725–1785): Cambridge physician, anatomist, and moralist

Sir Francis Crane Kt. and Dr. William Davison; patient and doctor in Paris in 1636

Obituary

Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter, B.A., Ph.D., F.L.A., F.R.S.L., Hon. D. Litt. (California), Hon. M.D. (Kiel). 24 December 1908–11 March 1979

News, Notes and Queries

News, Notes and Queries

Book Reviews

Lester S. King, The philosophy of medicine. The early eighteenth century, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. viii, 291, £12.25.

Morris Berman, Social change and scientific organization. The Royal Institution 1799–1844, London, Heinemann Educational Books, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxv, 224, illus., £11.00.

Frank Mcdowell(editor), The source book of plastic surgery, Baltimore, Md., Williams & Wilkins, 1977, 8vo, pp. xiv, 509, illus., $54.00.

Joseph Needham, The shorter science and civilization in China: 1, an abridgement by Colin A. Ronan, Cambridge University Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xi, 326, illus., £7.95.

Peter Morley and Roy Wallis(editors), Culture and curing. Anthropological perspectives on traditional medical beliefs andpractices, London, Peter Owen, 1978, 8vo, pp. vii, 190, £7.50.

Seymour Fisher and Roger P. Greenberg(editors), The scientific evaluation of Freud's theories and therapy, Hassocks, Sussex, Harvester Press, 1978, 8vo, pp. xv, 446, £13.50.

George E. Giffordjr.(editor), Psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and the New England medical scene 1894–1944, New York, Science History Publications, 1978, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 438, illus., $35.00 ($28.00 paperback).

Ruth Hall(editor), Dear Dr. Stopes. Sex in the 1920s. Letters to Marie Stopes, London, Deutsch, 1978, 8vo, pp. 218, £6.50.

Richard D. Altick, The shows of London. A panoramic history of exhibitions, 1600–1862, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978, 4to, pp. [x], 553, illus., £19.75.

E. J. R. Burrough, Unity in diversity. The short life ofthe United Oxford Hospitals, Abingdon, [privately printed for the author by Burgess], 1978, 8vo, pp. x, 282, £4.95.

Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers(editors), Sickness and health in America. Readings in the history of medicine andpublic health, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1978, 4to, pp. ix, 454, £6.30 (paperback).

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