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Medical History

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Volume 37 - Issue 4 - October 1993

Articles

Typhus and its control in Russia, 1870–1940

Palmitate or permanganate: the venereal prophylaxis debate in Britain, 1916–1926

Epidemiology of puerperal fever: The contributions of Alexander Gordon

British Army surgeons commissioned 1840–1909 with west Indian/west African service: A prosopographical evaluation

Independent discovery in biology: Investigating styles of scientific research

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Nicholas Gainsford: his book

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Book Reviews

Charles E. Rosenberg, Explaining epidemics and other studies in the history of medicine, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. x, 357, £35.00, $44.95 (hardback 0-521-39340-X), £11.95, $14.95 (0-521-39569-0).

Margaret Humphreys, Yellow fever and the South, Health and Medicine in American Society series, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp. x, 226, $45.00 (0-8135-1820-2).

F. K. Prochaska, Philanthropy and the hospitals of London: The King's Fund 1897–1990, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992, pp. xii, 308, illus., £35.00 (019-820266-0).

Eduard Seidler, Die medizinische Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau: Grundlagen und Entwicklungen, Berlin, New York and London, Springer Verlag, 1991, pp. xv, 618, illus., DM 98.00 (3-540-53978-6).

Vivien NG, Madness in late imperial China: from illness to deviance, Norman and London, University of Oklahoma Press, 1990, pp. xiv, 204, £19.95 (0-8061-2297-8).

Wilhelm Weber and Eduard Weber, Mechanics of the human walking apparatus, transl. P. Maquet and R. Furlong, Berlin and New York, Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. xix, 273, illus., DM 168.00 (3-540-53541-1).

W. J. Stephen,Primary health care in the Arab world, Wells, Somerset House, 1992, pp. ix, 314, (0-7291-0200-9).

John M. Riddle, Quid pro quo: studies in the history of drugs, Variorum Collected Studies series, Aldershot, Variorum, 1992, pp. xii, 316, £45.00 (0-86078-319-7).

Medicine and healing. The Dublin Seminarfor New England Folklife, annual proceedings 1990, ed. Peter Benes, Boston University, 1992, pp. 200, illus., $15.00.

Michel Morange (ed.), L'Institut Pasteur: contributions à son histoire, Histoire des sciences, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 1991, pp. 321, FF 150.00 (2-7071-2054-5).

L'image et la science, Actes du 115e Congrès national des Sociétés Savantes, Avignon, 1990, Colloques du C.T.H.S. 8, Paris, Editions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 1992, pp. 425, illus., FF 400.00 (2-7355-0263-5).

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