Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations. Ed. by H. Beukers, A.M. Luyendijk-Elshout, M.E. van Opstall and F. Yos. Amsterdam — Atlanta, GA, Rodopi, 1991. 114 S. III. (Nieuwe Nederlandse Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde en der Natuurwetenschappen, No. 36). Hfl. 40.-; $ 20.-. ISBN 90-6203-680-5; ISSN 0168-9827.

`De bevordering en volmaking der proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte': de rol van het Bataafsch Genootschap te Rotterdam in de geschiedenis van de natuurwetenschappen, geneeskunde en techniek (1769–1988)

For all the obvious hazards and problems of using such a compilation, it is an extraordinary resource. It should surely provide the basis for a much-needed prosopography of the medical trade in the pre-reform era. The sheer proliferation ofnumbers (there are clearly well over 35,000 medical practitioners, in the narrow sense, listed here) provides ample confirmation of the arguments, recently a...

Werkplaatsen van wetenschap en techniek. Industriële en academische laboratoria in Nederland 1860–1940. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek

historians seek to learn the nature of the young Scots doctors who came in droves to England throughout the hundred years straddling the first World War, this autobiography will be essential reading. When Sydney Laird's generation was at its most clinically active, a venereologist was jokingly defined as a doctor with many acquaintances but few friends. The joke stops here. My abiding memory of...

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Lawson Tait: the rebellious surgeon (1845–1899)

century physiology and his impact upon the development of biology. The questionmark in the title is an indication of the author's uncertainty about this problem. This uncertainty concerns unfortunately the most important aspects of his work; Feurbach's influence upon his philosophy and his place in neo-materialistic physiology with Buchner and Vogt. It was especially hard for her to trace Moles...