This article reviews the relationship between medical journals and publishing societies in eighteenth-century Great Britain. The importance of the perception that these journals were being issued under the auspices of societies is revealed by the number of times this kind of sponsorship was invoked by new medical journals. This kind of endorsement was projected even when a society so designated...

but the authors seem unfortunately to have been given no opportunity to amend or reconsider them. Regrettable also in such a diverse collection is the absence ofan index. The papers are very variable in quality, too often over-long, and with frequently excellent data employed in largely descriptive presentations confined to single localities, lacking context or even an attempt to assess wider i...

Contrary to what one might expect from the very general title, this book is a detailed, archivally-based study of a small, mostly rural state in northern Germany, the duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel. A subtitle might perhaps have been in order here, to warn the unwary student expecting a general textbook covering the whole of Germany. Yet Mary Lindemann's substantial new work is anything but...

Reviewed by Roy Porter, M.A., Ph.D., Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Rd, London NWI 2BP. In his brisk and clear book, Professor Anderson traces the development of historical interpretation of some leading issues of eighteenth-century history from the verdicts of contemporaries up to the present day. Changing evaluations of eighteenthcentury rulers such as Frederick th...