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(1) Essays on the History of Medicine (2) The Doctor's Oath: an Essay in the History of Medicine (3) A Pioneer of Public Health—William Thompson Sedgwick

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(1) THE Festschrift dedicated to Prof. Karl Sudhoff on the occasion of his seventieth birthday consists of eighteen essays contributed by writers from England, the United States, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. The essays, eight of which are in English, nine in German, and one in Italian, have been classified by the editors into the five groups of antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, modern times, and general subjects respectively.

(1) Essays on the History of Medicine.

Presented to Karl Sudhoff on the occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, November 26, 1923, by Sir T. Clifford Allbutt, Arturo Castiglioni, Friedrioh Dannemann, Paul Diepgen, Ericn Ebstein, Fielding H. Garrison, Ernst Howald, Arnold C. Klebs, E. O. von Lippmann, Max Neuburger, Sir Humphry Rolleston, Henry E. Sigerist, Charles Singer and Dorothea Singer, W. G. Spencer, Georg Sticker, E. C. Streeter, Lynn Thorndike, G. A. Wehrli, and Edward Theodore Withington. Charles Singer Henry E. Sigerist. Pp. v + 418 + 24 plates. (London: Oxford University Press; Zurich: Verlag Seldwyla, 1924.) 42s. net.

(2) The Doctor's Oath: an Essay in the History of Medicine.

W. H. S. Jones. Pp. vi + 62. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1924.) 7s. 6d. net.

(3) A Pioneer of Public Health—William Thompson Sedgwick.

E. O. Jordan G. C. Whipple C.-E. A. Winslow. Pp. xvi + 193 + 5 plates. (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1924.) 18s. 6d. net.

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(1) Essays on the History of Medicine (2) The Doctor's Oath: an Essay in the History of Medicine (3) A Pioneer of Public Health—William Thompson Sedgwick. Nature 115, 372–373 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115372a0

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