The origins and early development of the heavy chemical industry in France

the history of medicine as the history of medical science and the history of medicine as a chapter in the struggle for social emancipation. The book concludes with a most useful bibliography of the history of Canadian medicine which demonstrates that the condition of the study is not quite as desperate as Dr. Shortt has indicated. In any case, he and his contributors are to be congratulated on having produced a handsome, widely informative, and useful volume. John Norris Division of the History of Medicine and Science University of British Columbia