Essays in the History of Therapeutics

William F. Bynum · Vivian Nutton

yan 1991 · Rodopi

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Preliminary Material --Introduction /W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton --The History of Therapeutics /Guenter B. Risse --From Medical Certainty to Medical Amulets: Three Aspects of Ancient Therapeutics /Vivian Nutton --Dietetic and Pharmacological Therapy: A Dilemma Among Fourteenth-Century Jewish Practitioners in the Montpellier Area /Luis Garcia-Ballester --Characteristic features of eighteenth-century therapeutics in Germany /Christa Habrich --The origins of homoeopathy in Germany /Renate Wittern --Science, Healing, and the Physician's Identity: A Problem of Professional Character in Nineteenth-Century America /John Harley Warner --"To operate or not to operate?" Scientific and extraneous factors in therapeutical controversies within the Swiss Society of Surgery 1913-1988 /Ulrich Tröhler --Book Reviews /W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton --John D. Post, Food Shortage, Climatic Variability, and Epidemic Disease in Pre-industrial Europe. The mortality peak in the early 1740s, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 303, ISBN 0-8014-1773-2, USD 32.95 /James C. Riley --Jan Goldstein, Console and Classify. The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. xiii, 414, illus., ISBN 0-521-32279-0, £ 30 / USD 49.50 /Mark Finnane --Matthew Ramsey, Professional and popular medicine in France, 1770-1830. The social world of medical practice, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. xvii, 406, illus. (Cambridge History of Medicine Series), ISBN 0-521-30517-9, £ 35 / USD 49.50 /Frank Huisman --Doreen Evenden Nagy, Popular Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England, Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988, pp. 140, ISBN 0-87972-435-8 / 0-87972-436-6, Can.USD 25.95 (cloth) / USD 12.95 (paperback) /Hilary Marland --D. de Moulin (ed.), 's-Rijkskweekschool voor Militaire Geneeskundigen te Utrecht (1822-1865) (Met een lijst van kwekelingen, samengesteld door M.J. van Lieburg), Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 1988, pp. 192, illus. (Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, no. 26), ISBN 90-5183-015-7, Dfl. 45.- (paperback) /Eddy Houwaart --Donald Fleming, William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987 (first published 1954), pp. 232, ISBN 0-8018-3389-2, USD 9.85 (paperback) /Godelieve Van Heteren --James T. Patterson, The Dread Disease. Cancer and Modern American Culture, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press, 1987, pp.xiii, 380, illus., ISBN 0-674-21625-3, USD 25.95 / USD 30.95 (Europe) /David Cantor --Russell C. Maulitz and Diana E. Long (eds), Grand Rounds. One Hundred Years of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, pp. xviii, 383, illus., ISBN 0-8122-8080-6, USD 34.95 /Steve Sturdy --J.H. Gaddum, Vasodilator substances of the tissues (with an introduction by H.H. Dale and notes for the fiftieth aniversary edition by F.C. MacIntosh), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987 (first published in German 1936), pp. xviii, 276, illus., ISBN 0-521-30860-7, £ 27.50 / USD 44.50 /Steve Sturdy --W. W. Mijnhardt, Tot Heil van 't Menschdom. Culturele genootschappen in Nederland, 1750-1815, Amsterdam, Editions Rodopi, 1988, pp. 430 (Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, no. 24), ISBN 90-6203-780-1, Dfl. 75.- (paperback) /Harold J. Cook --Maya Borkowsky, Ärztliche Vorschriften zur Schwangerschaftshygiene im 19. Jahrhundert unter Berücksichtigung einiger Aspekte der Diätetik für Gebärende, Wöchnerinnen und Stillende, Chronos Verlag, Zürich, 1988, pp. iv, 383, ISBN 3-905278-25-1, Swiss Fr. 58 (paperback), and Maya Borkowsky, Krankheit Schwangerschaft? Schwangerschaft, Geburt und Wochenbett aus ärztlicher Sicht seit 1800, Chronos Verlag, Zürich, 1988, pp. 336, illus., ISBN 3-905278-26-X, Swiss Fr. 36 (paperback) /Mary Lindemann --Valerie Fildes (ed.), Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England (Essays in Memory of Dorothy McLaren), London and New York, Routledge, 1990, pp. xvii, 225 (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine), ISBN 0-415-02488-9, £ 35 /Hilary Marland --Ralph Jackson, Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire, London, British Museum Publications, 1988, pp. 207, illus., ISBN 0-7141-1390-5, £ 17.50 /John M. Riddle --Andrés Piquer, Las epidemias de Hippócrates. Con observaciones párcticas de los antiguos y modernos (with an introduction by José M. López Piñero), Madrid, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 1988 (first published 1761), pp. 200, ISBN 84-7670-067-9, peseta 3000 /Alfredo Menendez-Navarro --Albert Z. Iskandar, Galen. On Examinations By Which The Best Physicians Are Recognized. Edition of the Arabic version with English translation and commentary, Berlin, DDR, Akademie-Verlag, 1988, pp. 213 (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum Supplementum Orientale IV), ISBN 3-05-000315-4, DM. 98 /Anthony J. Papalas --Harald Nielsen, Medicaments used in the treatment of Eye Diseases in Egypt, the countries of the Near East, India and China in antiquity, Odense, Denmark, Odense University Press, 1987, pp. 76, illus., ISBN 87-7492-614-4, DKK. 120 (paperback) /Anthony J. Papalas --P.J. and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licenses, apprenticeships) (with the assistance of J.G.L. Burnby and the late T.D. Whittet), Newcastle upon Tyne, Project for Historical Biobibliography, 1988 (second edition, first published 1985), pp. xxvi, 690, illus., index of places, ISBN 1-871768-00-4, £ 80 / USD 160 /Hilary Marland --Isabel Hunter and Shelagh Wotherspoon, A Bibliography of Health Care in Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1986 (Occasional Papers in the History of Medicine, no. 6), ISBN 0-88901-113-3, Can. USD 18 (paperback) /Doreen Evenden Nagy --Tractrix. Yearbook for the History of Science, Medicine, Technology and Mathematics, vol. 1, 1989, pp. 155, illus., ISSN 0924-0829 (copies available from Editions Rodopi BV, Keizersgracht 302-304, 1016 EX Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Editions Rodopi BV, 233 Peachtree Street N.E., Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30303-1504, USA), Dfl. 67.-/ USD 33.50 (institutions), Dfl. 35.-/ USD 17.50 (individual subscribers direct from publishers, plus Dfl. 7.-/ USD 3.50 postage) /Eddy Houwaart --Books Received /W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton --Back Matter /W.F. Bynum and V. Nutton.