John T. Alexander, Bubonic Plague in early modern Russia: public health and urban disaster, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xvii, 385, illus., £1 5.50.

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Dora B. Weiner (editor), Philippe Pinel. The clinical training of doctors. An essay of 1793, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. x, 102, illus., £4.50 (paperback).

Erna Lesky (editor), A system of complete medical police. Selections from Johann Peter Frank, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxiii, 469, £24.00.

Genevieve Miller (editor), Letters of Edward Jenner and other documents concerning the history of vaccination, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983, 8vo, pp. xxix, 145, £12·75.

Elizabeth Fee, Disease and discovery: a history ofthe Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. xii, 286, illus., £21.30.

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William Budd, On the causes off evers (1839), edited by Dale C. Smith, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984, 8vo, pp.xii, 164, £9.55 (paperback).

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John Farley, The spontaneous generation controversy. From Descartes to Oparin, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. xiv, 225, £10.25.

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Giorgio Tagliacozzo and Donald Phillip Verene (editors), Giambattista Vico's science of humanity, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xxix, 496, £13.30.

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Charles E. Rosenberg, No other gods. On science and American social thought, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 8vo, pp. xiii, 273, £9.45.

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