Frederick Douglass: Selections from His Writings

The World of Ramon y Cajal. With Selections from his Nonscientific Writings

The authors modestly claim that their first objective is to present a personalized account of the origins of this great Spaniard. This is done by a brilliantly executed travelogue. We are intimately conducted from Cajal's birthplace by devious and sometimes hazardous routes (one can almost see the taxi-driver and his seedy Renault) through villages and countryside to Madrid and beyond-from hars...

The roots of āyurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings

beginning of a spectacular career for antimony in chemistry and medicine" (p. 14). The internal use of antimony and its compounds was most widespread during the seventeenth century: despite periodic warnings about its poisonous nature, its apparent ability to expel undesirable humours from the body by promoting sweating, vomiting and purging-ensured its acceptance in medical practice, particula...

Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings

This book is a collection of abstracts of the world literature in surgery written by the abstract and news editor of the Journal of the International College of Surgeons. The volume is attractive in format and is easy to use. Complete references are listed at the end of each abstracted article, most of which were published in 1949. The papers were chosen on the basis of the unusual, the interes...

George Herbert Mead and social reform: his work and writings.

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689): his Life and Original Writings

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): his Life and Original Writings, by KENNEH DEWHURST, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1966, pp. viii, 180, illus., 35s. Thomas Sydenham was 'the greatest physician this country has ever produced', Dr. Dewhurst claims boldly (p. vii). Parliamentarian soldier, member of a family which had helped to run England for Oliver Cromwell, himself a radical Whig...