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last few years by Jetter himself, show hospitals as they now appear. There are also architectural sketches, floorplans from different historical periods, and detailed photographs of stained-glass windows and commemorative crests. In addition, the book contains a sixteen-page historical survey that integrates the accounts of the ten individual hospitals and discusses some of the other important institutions. There are five maps, showing the locations of fifty-seven hospitals that existed at one time or another in Vienna. There is a list of the major Babenburgs and all the Habsburgs who ruled Austria between 978 and 1918, a bibliography, and an index of names and places. All this information is intelligently and efficiently organized. Jetter's book is informative, interesting, and compact. However, as a history it is necessarily a bit disjointed and sketchy. Unless one were specifically interested in one of the ten main hospitals, the book would probably not be very useful in a narrowly defined academic context. On the other hand, as a guide-book to the hospitals of Vienna, it would be excellent; it is exactly the sort of thing one would like to have in hand when visiting, for example, the maze of the Viennese Allgemeines Krankenhaus. Jetter enables one to discover where the heroes of Viennese medicine did their work, which parts of the buildings date from which historical periods, as well as how to find the famous Narrenthurm. K. Codell Carter Brigham Young University