The Story of Medicine in the Middle Ages A Short History of Talmudic Medicine Medical Practitioners in the Diocese of London An Essay on the External Use of Water The Story of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School American Medicine

Abstract

(1) THE work on medicine in the Middle Ages by Dr. David Riesman, professor of the history of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, contains an admirably comprehensive study of the medical aspects of an age which until recently had received comparatively little attention. As Dr. Riesman points out, we are in the first place indebted to medieval medicine for the preservation of the writings of the Greeks, Romans, Arabians and Jews, without which progress in medicine would never have taken place. As regards Arabian medicine, he judiciously remarks that it is yet too early to pass a final judgment in view of the probable existence of many undeciphered texts, but he brings forward in its favour the preservation of many texts, many chemical discoveries, good advice concerning diet, a clear account of many diseases, and a considerable number of plant remedies.

The Story of Medicine in the Middle Ages

By Prof. David Riesman. Pp. xii + 402. (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1935.) 5 dollars.

A Short History of Talmudic Medicine

By Dr. J. Snowman. Pp. 94. (London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Ltd., 1935.) 3s. 6d. net.

Medical Practitioners in the Diocese of London

Licensed under the Act of 3 Henry VIII, C. II.; an Annotated List 1529–1725. By J. Harvey Bloom and R. Rutson James. Pp. viii + 98. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1935.) 5s. net.

An Essay on the External Use of Water

By Tobias Smollett. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Claude E. Jones. (Reprinted from Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1935.) Pp. 31 – 82 + 1 plate. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 4s. 6d. net.

The Story of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School

Written at the request of the Council of the Medical School on the Occasion of the Centenary. By Dr. H. Campbell Thomson. Pp. xiii + 182 + 20 plates. (London: John Murray, 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.

American Medicine

By Dr. Henry E. Sigerist. Translated by Hildegard Nagel. Pp. 316 + 30 plates. (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., Inc.; London: Oxford University Press, 1934.) 16s. net.