ryVV/ !;l... _ A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the History of Medicine and Related Sciences Y Volume 39 * Number 1 * January 1995 THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE M--- available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300059433 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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Watson Cheyne, Antiseptic surgerv, London, Smith, Elder, 1882 (Wellcome Institute Library, London). available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300059433 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:53:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300059433 https://www.cambridge.org/core Contents Book Reviews Nicolaas Rupke, Richard Owen: Victorian naturalist DAVID OLDROYD 101 Mark S Micale (ed.), Beyond the unconscious: essays ofHenri F Ellenberger in the history ofpsychiatry ROY PORTER 102 John S Haller, JR, Medical protestants: the eclectics in American medicine, 1925-1939 WILLIAM G ROTHSTEIN 103 Khaled J Bloom, The Mississippi Valley 's great yellow fever epidemic of 1878 ANNE HARDY 104 William H Brock, The Fontana history of chemistry DAVID KNIGHT 105 Jutta Kollesch and Diethard Nickel (eds), Galen und das hellenistische Erbe P N SINGER 106 Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas (eds), A Greek and Arabic lexicon (GALex): materials for a dictionary of the mediaeval translations from Greek into Arabic LAWRENCE I CONRAD 107 Andrew Wear, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, and Roger French (eds), Doctors and ethics: the earlier historical setting ofprofessional ethics RUSSELL G SMITH 108 John Wiltshire, Jane Austen and the body: 'the picture of health' G S ROUSSEAU 109 Teresa Santander, El Hospital del Estudio (asistencia y hospitalidad de la Universidad de Salamanca), 1413-1810 KATHERINA ROWOLD 110 Michael R McVaugh, Medicine before the plague: practitioners and their patients in the crown ofAragon 1285-1345 CORNELIUS O'BOYLE 111 Hilary Marland (ed.), The art of midwifery: early modern midwives in Europe ANDREW WEAR 113 Michael Hunter (ed.), Robert Boyle reconsidered WILLIAM H BROCK 114 Jean E Ward and Joan Yell (eds and trans.), The medical casebook of William Brownrigg, M.D., FR.S., (1712-1800) of the town of Whitehaven in Cumberland J G L BURNBY 115 available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300059433 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:53:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300059433 https://www.cambridge.org/core Contents Jean-Claude Beaune (ed.), La Philosophie du remede MICHAEL SHEPHERD 117 Peter Keating, La Science du mal: l'institution de la psychiatrie au Quebec, 1800-1914 IAN DOWBIGGIN 117 Hasso Spode, Die Macht der Trunkenheit: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Alkohols in Deutschland ANDREAS-HOLGER MAEHLE 118 Veronique Dasen, Dwarfs in ancient Egypt and Greece NICHOLAS VLAHOGIANNIS 119 M Stol, Epilepsy in Babylonia LAWRENCE I CONRAD 120 Andrew Scull, The most solitary of afflictions: madness and society in Britain, 1700-1900 TREVOR TURNER 121 James W Trent, JR, Inventing the feeble mind: a history ofmental retardation in the United States MATHEW THOMSON 122 Leonie de Goei and Joost Vijselaar (eds), Proceedings of the Ist European Congress on the History of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care AKIHITO SUZUKI 123 J Stuart Moore, Chiropractic in America: the history of a medical alternative JAMES WHORTON 124 David Arnold, Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India PHILIP D CURTIN 125 Kenneth L Caneva, Robert Mayer and the conservation of energy R STEVEN TURNER 126 Book Notices 128 available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300059433 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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