Medical Education: The Queen's-Rutgers Experience, 1792–1830

the influence of Africa upon him, as well as to his desire to further the cause of mutual understanding between western nations and the newly-emerging African states. In his foreword the author does not forget to pay tribute to the British Museum and the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. He begins with an account of prehistoric times, followed by a review of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Arabian and European medicine. There are numerous illustrations of fair quality and some good maps dealing with such topics as the location of doctors up to 1917 and the university and health institutes after the Second World War. There are also lists of hospitals and Egyptian doctors since A.D. 641-beginning with Paulus von Agina. There is a surprising absence of a table of contents and an index, despite some sixty pages of references. There are also a few mis-spellings e.g. 'Enecyclopedia' and 'E. Ashwoorth Underwood' (p. 139). Nevertheless the book can be recommended as a compact introduction to an intriguing subject. 1. M. LIBRACH