Roman Medicine

Librarian of the National Library ofWales, and used to illustrate the lecture at Cardiff. The initial article is a scholarly account of Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter, by Margery Rowe and G. E. Trease. To a Welsh reviewer, another pleasing feature of the Transactions is that it has been printed by J. D. Lewis and Sons Ltd., Gomerian Press, Llandysul. They have already done so much to improve standards nationally and internationally, and it is undoubtedly largely due to their expertise that the current Transactions is offered at the bargain price of 80p or 2 United States dollars including postage. D. GERAINT JAMES