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(1) SIR WILLIAM HALE-WHITE is to be congratulated on having employed his leisure on retirement from practice by the compilation in an intimate and attractive style of the life and work of seventeen eminent British physicians and surgeons of the nineteenth century, with some of whom he was personally acquainted.
(1) Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century
By Sir William Hale-White. Pp. vi + 325. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1935.) 15s. net.
(2) Benjamin Rush, Physician and Citizen, 1746–1813
By Nathan G. Goodman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1934.) 17s. net.
(3) Franklin Paine Mall: the Story of a Mind
By Florence Rena Sabin. Pp. xiii + 342 + 8 plates. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
(4) Those Were Good Days !
Reminiscences. By Carl Ludwig Schleich. Translated by Bernard Miall. Pp. 280 + 9 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1935.) 12s. 6d. net.
(5) The Proceedings of the Charaka Club
Vol. 8.(Published for the Charaka Club.) Pp. xvi + 202 + 31 plates. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 25s. net.
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(1) Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century (2) Benjamin Rush, Physician and Citizen, 1746–1813 (3) Franklin Paine Mall: the Story of a Mind (4) Those Were Good Days ! (5) The Proceedings of the Charaka Club. Nature 138, 663–665 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138663a0
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