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THE numerous readers of NATURE, medical and otherwise, who are familiar with Dr. Singer's valuable contributions to the history of medicine, will welcome the appearance of this volume in which he has admirably succeeded in his attempt to trace the history of medicine as “a Rational Discipline involving many and perhaps all the sciences.”
A Short History of Medicine: introducing Medical Principles to Students and Non-Medical Readers.
By Dr. Charles Singer. Pp. xxiv+368. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1928.) 7s. 6d. net.
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A Short History of Medicine: introducing Medical Principles to Students and Non-Medical Readers . Nature 122, 838 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122838a0
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