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Th. H. LUNSINGH SCHEURLEER and G. H. M. POSTHUMUS MEYJES (editors), Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975, fo, pp. viii, 496, illus., DFI. 175. In the history of medicine we judge the University of Leiden to be the most outstanding centre for medical education during the early decades of the eighteenth century. It is usually forgotten, ...