Queen Saint Margaret, Jesuit Devotion, and Seventeenth-Century Scottish Catholicism

Scottish population history from the seventeenth century to the 1930s

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

Prescription and devotion: the Reverend Doctor Donne and the learned Doctor Mayerne--two seventeenth-century records of epidemic typhus fever.

IN THE LATE autumn of 1623, the poet John Donne, then Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, contracted typhus which was sweeping London in epidemic.' For almost three weeks Donne suffered a near-mortal fever, visited by his physicians and nursed by a few faithful servants. More fortunate than many, Donne did not die of the disease, and by early January, confined to a chair by his bedside, he had begun ...

Utopia in the Midst of Oppression? A Reconsideration of Guaraní/Jesuit Communities in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Paraguay

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. ...