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PROF. LONG, who holds the chair of pathology in the University of Chicago, has given in this little volume the first definite and systematic account in English of the history of his subject. The work is divided into twelve chapters devoted respectively to the pathology of antiquity, Galen and the Middle Ages, the pathology of the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, Morgagni and the eighteenth century, pathology in France, England, Vienna, and Berlin respectively in the early part of the nineteenth century, pathological histology and the last third of the nineteenth century, the rise of bacteriology and immunology, and experimental and chemical pathology. An appendix contains a list of the classical works on the subject from Hippocrates to Cohnheim. The book, which contains a vast amount of information presented in an attractive manner, is illustrated by numerous portraits and figures from the older works on pathology.
A History of Pathology.
By Prof. Esmond R. Long. Pp. xxiv + 291 + 49 plates. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1928.) 22s. 6d. net.
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Medical Sciences. Nature 124, 543 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124543c0
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