(1) The Rise of Preventive Medicine (2) Great Doctors: a Biographical History of Medicine (3) The Physician: as Man of Letters, Science and Action (4) The Life of Edward Jenner, M.D., F.R.S., Naturalist and Discoverer of Vaccination

Abstract

(1) SIR GEORGE NEWMAN'S book represents the first series of lectures founded in the University of London by Mr. Charles Heath Clark, who died in 1926. The general scope of these lectures as decided by the Senate of the University was to include the educational, cultural and humanistic aspects of preventive medicine as distinct from technical and manipulative training.

(1) The Rise of Preventive Medicine.

By Sir George Newman. (University of London: Heath Clark Lectures, 1931, delivered at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.) Pp. ix + 270 + 8 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932.) 10s. 6d. net.

(2) Great Doctors: a Biographical History of Medicine.

By Dr. Henry E. Sigerist. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Pp. 436 + 60 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1933.) 15s. net.

(3) The Physician: as Man of Letters, Science and Action.

By Prof. Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro. Pp. viii + 212. (Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie and Co., 1933.) 10s. 6d. net.

(4) The Life of Edward Jenner, M.D., F.R.S., Naturalist and Discoverer of Vaccination.

By Dr. F. Dawtrey Drewitt. Second edition (enlarged). Pp. xi + 151 + 6 plates. (London, New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1933.) 6s. net.