Power and penury: government, technology and science in Philip II's Spain

Omissions are minor. English readers might miss a reference to Charles Singer, 'A review of medical literature of the Dark Ages', Proc. R. Soc. Med., 1917, 10: 107-60, which contains, (p. 133), a Prognostica vera e libro Galieni, which should be added to the list on p. 103, cf. also Med. Hist., 1970, 14: 96-8. The text on falconry medicine, certainly written before 950, which was published by Bernhard Bischoff, (Anecdota novissima, 1984, pp. 171-82), should perhaps also have been included, given the laudable decision to describe texts on veterinary as well as on human medicine. Finally, it is worth noting that good photostats ofmany of the manuscripts of Dark Age medicine, including part of the now destroyed Herten manuscript, were made by Sigerist and can now be consulted at the Institute for the History of Medicine in Baltimore. All in all, the Centre Jean-Palerne must be congratulated on an excellent and most useful collaborative work.