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detail exactly how sparse medical care was in Scotland. Even if it were available, the authors show that the stringency of the Scottish Poor Law may have denied access to it. One of their tables (9.B) "shows how much was actually spent on doctors per head of the population on the poor roll. The Scottish average was £0.0 154, or no more than 3.d per pauper per year in the old money" (p. 217). The comprehensiveness and range of figures the authors have been able to produce will be the envy of English historians. The homeland of conjectural history after all is also the repository of the Statistical Account. Christopher Lawrence Wellcome Museum at the Science Museum