Autobiography of Charles Caldwell, M.D

Scarborough touches on these and on many other matters but too often does not press the enquiry home. This may be due partly to limited space allowed for a various and complicated subject, for which the quantity and the quality of the evidence are alike uneven. There are appendices on medical biographies, on sources and problems, on the vexed question ofhuman dissection in Roman times, and on Roman veterinary medicine. But the combination of medical know-ledge with Greek and Latin scholarship and historical insight needed for this subject is unlikely, in our times, to be found in one man, and the right man would take many years to acquire it. E. D. PMHLIS