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Medical History

An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences

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Volume 30 - Issue 2 - April 1986

Articles

A transformation in training: The formation of University medical faculties in Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool, 1870–84

Samuel Johnson's gout

The Board of Supervision and the Scottish parochial medical service, 1845–95

George Owen Rees, MD, FRS (1813–89): Pioneer of medical chemistry

Thomas Wakley and the medical coronership–occupational death and the judicial process

George Baker: Translator of Aparicio de Zubia's pamphlet on the “Oleum Magistrale”

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: The archive of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine

News, Notes, and Queries

News, Notes, and Queries

Essay Review

Timothy S. Miller, The birth ofthe hospital in the Byzantine Empire, Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 288, $19.95.

Book Review

Margarete Sandelowski, Pain, pleasure, and American childbirth. From the Twilight Sleep to the Read method, 1914–1960, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xix, 152, £31.50.

Frederick Lawrence Holmes, Lavoisier and the chemistry of life. An exploration of scientific creativity, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 565, illus., £38.00.

Elizabeth Haigh, Xavier Bichat and the medical theory of the eighteenth century, (Medical History, supplement no. 4), London, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984, 8vo, pp. 146, UK £11.00/overseas £15.00.

Maine De Biran, Oeuvres: Tome V, Discours à la Société médicale de Bergerac, edited by François Azouvi, Paris, Vrin, 1984, pp. xv, 199, Fr.129.00; Tome VI,Rapports duphysiqueet du moral de l'homme, edited by F. C. T. Moore, Paris, Vrin, 1984, pp. xvi, 207, Fr.120.00.

Antje Krug, Heilkunst und Heilkult. Medizin in der Antike, Munich, C.H. Beck, 1985,8vo, pp. 244, illus., DM.38.00 (paperback).

Leendert G. Westerink, (editor and translator), Stephanus of Athens, Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms, Sections 1-2, Corpus Medicorum Graecorum XI 1,3,1, Berlin DDR, Akademie Verlag, 1985, 8vo, pp. 257, M.78.00

Giambattista Morgagni, Clinical consultations, the edition of Enrico Benassi (1935) trans. and rev. by Saul Jarcho, Boston, Mass., Francis Countway Library of Medicine 1984, 8vo, pp. C, 450, $42.50 (distributed by Uniiversity Press of Virginia, Charlottesville).

Margaret Rowbottom and Charles Susskind, Electricity and medicine. History of their interaction, San Francisco, San Francisco Press; London, Macmillan, 1984, 8vo, pp. vii, 303, illus., £25.00.

Gerlof Verwey, Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context: Philosophical presuppositions and implications of German psychiatry, 1820–1870.Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster, D. Reidel, 1984, 8vo, pp. xix, 316, £30.50.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (editor), The complete letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887–1904, Cambridge Mass., and London, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985, 8vo, pp. xv, 505, illus., £19.95.

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