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Nature volume 337, pages 697–698 (1989)Cite this article

The Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicine.

Edited By William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes. University of California Press:1988. Pp.342. $39.95. The American Development of Biology. Edited By Ronald Rainger and Keith R. Benson and Jane Maienschein. University of Pennsylvania Press: 1988. Pp.380. $37.95, £30.35.

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