Colonial Vessels: Some Seventeenth-Century Sailing Craft

Some difficult confinements in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire.

PARISH REGISTERS can provide the historian of the pre-census era with a wealth of information about many aspects of population change. The registers can be processed to provide data relating to infant mortality and to the incidence of post-natal deaths among mothers. Many registers also list the burials of still-born children. But very few registers give more detail than this. A survey of 354 Y...

Some notes on seventeenth-century continental hospitals.

S I R H A N S S L O A N E (1660-1753), the eminent Stuart and Georgian physician, was an avid collector of historical manuscripts, particularly those relating to all branches of medicine and the allied sciences. His collection, an original nucleus of the British Museum, remains one of the most important archives for research into the medical history ot early modern Europe. Even the voluminous d...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

Medicine in seventeenth century England

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...

European science in the seventeenth century

Dr. Knight has written an excellent book that will prove invaluable as an introductory explanation of science for a wide audience, but especially for the younger person entering this discipline. It will also be a useful text for those interested in the history of science and medicine. It is very well written and does not demand of the reader much previous knowledge of science. It richly deserve...