Printing and publishing the illustrated botanical book in nineteenth century Great Britain

Epidemics and Infections in Nineteenth-Century Britain

We would like to thank Graham Mooney and Andrew Noymer and Beth Jarosz for their responses to our ‘Second Opinion’ on ‘Infectious Disease and the Epidemiological Transition in Victorian Britain’. Mooney offers a robust attack on our general claim that the importance of infectious diseases as a cause of death in the nineteenth century has been overstated, while seeming to accept what we say abou...

Mortality in mid nineteenth century Britain

RICHARD CAVENDISH, The powers of evil in western religion, magic and folk belief, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 8vo, pp. ix, 299, £5.95. Evil supernatural agencies are part of every culture in degrees varying with their sophistication. As is to be expected, primitive man is surrounded by them, but they are of course still believed in by races who boast advanced social and cultural devel...

A geography of nineteenth-century Britain

Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century

English literature is by no means rich in medical biographies and any worthy additions to the historical shelves of our libraries are very welcome indeed. These seventeen essays on distinguished doctors of the last century are important from an historical point of view, and they also form very good reading matter. The biographies are peculiarly satisfying, but it is hard to say what is the part...

Medical "publishing societies" in eighteenth-century Britain.

This article reviews the relationship between medical journals and publishing societies in eighteenth-century Great Britain. The importance of the perception that these journals were being issued under the auspices of societies is revealed by the number of times this kind of sponsorship was invoked by new medical journals. This kind of endorsement was projected even when a society so designated...