Medical Historyfor Students, by JOHN R. GREEN, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1968, pp. ix, 197, illus., $9.75. This book, based upon the author's lecture syllabus, has been written for the express purpose of introducing the student to an outline of medical history from the earliest times until the present day. Controversial discussion would therefore be out of place. The subject is treat...

BEFORE discussing the present position of medical history in the German medical curriculum I should like to make some historical remarks. The paper begins therefore with the part played by the history of medicine in Germany during the nineteenth century up to the first world war. Thereafter it will deal with the time between Sudhoff's foundation of the Institute of History of Medicine at the Un...

The modern medical student is necessarily heavily burdened with instruction in Medical Science. When the teaching of Medical History is added to the university course, it is first necessary to stimulate student interest in that discipline and show its clinical relevance.