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Historical Gleanings
For a thorough study of "Greek Philosophy and the Discovery of the
Nerves" readers are referred to the article by Friedrich Solmsen in
Museum Helveticum, 1961, 18, 150-167 and 169-197, the first section of
which is concerned with pre-Socratic and related doctrines, the second
with Plato, the third with Aristotle, the fourth with post-Aristotelian
doctrines, and the fifth with the discoveries of Herophilus and Erasistratus.
The medical virtues of hyssop are included by Alfred C. Andrews
in his discussion "Hyssop in the Classical Era" in Classical Philology,
1961, 56, 230-848.
In Bucknell Review, i960, 9, 247-255 Vern L. Bullough discusses
"Medieval Medicine and the Search for Status."
The results of Loren C. MacKinney's most recent investigations of
miniatures in manuscripts are published in the article "Medieval Medical

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Miniatures in Central and Eastern European Collections" in Manuscripta,
1961, 5, 131-150.
The first genuine evidence of degrees in medicine at Oxford comes
only in the fourteenth century, and Oxford seems to have had little
influence on the practice of medicine in England during the Middle Ages.
Vern L. Bullough discusses the problem in his article "Medical Study at
Mediaeval Oxford" in Speculum, 1961, 36, 600-612.
Curt F. Biihler of The Pierpont Morgan Library is the possessor of
a Middle English medical manuscript of 61 leaves written by various
hands in East Anglia in the fifteenth century. He describes it in Studies
in Medieval Literature in Honor of Professor Albert Croll Baugh, edited
by MacEdward Leach (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1961]), pages 285-298. Its two chief items are a herbal and a medical
treatise, both in verse.
In Libri, 1961, 11, 355-363 Ruben Eriksson discusses the provenance
of MS. Holm.X.93 in the Royal Library at Stockholm. This manuscript
contains the eye-witness report of Baldasar Heseler on Vesalius's first
public anatomy at Bologna, 1540, which was published by Dr. Eriksson
in 1959. In the article Dr. Eriksson describes also manuscripts of Avicenna,
Bernard de Gordon, Gilles de Corbeil, and John Arderne in the Royal
Library.
Interest in Ambroise Pare" has increased steadily ever since the publi-
cation, in 1937, of Janet Doe's bibliography of his works. In 1940 Miss
Doe issued a list of addenda to the bibliography. A supply of this list
remains; she will be glad to send a copy to anyone requesting it. Miss
Doe's address is 10 Druid Place, R.F.D. 1, Katonah, New York.
In Studies in Philology, i960, 57, 622-633 Francelia Butler identifies
as John Penkethman the author of two plague tracts published in London
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under the pseudonym J. Patridophilus. The first, The Cities Comfort
(STC 16750), is a prose broadside issued by Gfeorge] Pfurslowe] pre-
sumably during the period July-November 1625. The second, A Preservative
Poem, is a small octavo printed by Anne Griffin for William Leake in 1636;
it elaborates the theme of the broadside, and the Boston Medical Library
owns what is said to be the unique copy of it.
Medical or art historians using William S. Heckscher, Rembrandt's
Anatomy of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp (New York, 1958) will want to take into
account the additional suggestions advanced in C. E. Kellett's perceptive
review in The Burlington Magazine, 1959, 101, 150-152.
Patrick Romanell's study of Locke is continued in his article "Locke's
Aphorisms on Education and Health" in the Journal of the History of
Ideas, 1961, 22, 549-554.

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In a letter to the editor of the Times Literary Supplement which
appeared in the issue of 12 January 1962 Richard Hunter gives his views
on the identification of the establishments to which Kit Smart was twice
confined.
For the fiftieth anniversary of its founding CIBA Industria Chimica
of Milano issued in 1961, under the editorship of Luigi Belloni, a
sumptuously illustrated volume containing Pietro Moscati's academic dis-
course (Milano, 1784) Dei vantaggi della educazione filosofua nello studio
delta chimica and Marsilio Landriani's Relazione sopra Basilea, Aarau, e
Bienne, which recounts a trip of 1787 and is here published from a
manuscript in Milano. Each tract is provided with ample introduction and
commentary. Dr. Arthur Wilhelm, president of CIBA, furnishes a preface.
Conditions in Britain's naval medical service from 1793 to 1815 are
examined by Eunice H. Turner in The Mariner's Mirror, i960, 46, 119-
133. The article is based primarily on letters which passed between the
Lords of the Admiralty and the Commissioners for the Sick and Hurt,
the Transport Board and the Hospital Governors.
The Catalogue of the Library of the Medical Department of the
University of Louisville (Louisville, 1847) included a regulation that
"at the dose of each session of the Medical Department, the President
of the Board shall appoint a committee, whose duty it shall be to examine
the Library on the first Monday in April, or as soon after as practicable,
and make report of the condition of the Library." It was fitting therefore
that on Monday, 2 April 1962, for the 125th anniversary of this library
which was founded in 1837, its friends were invited to examine it. Its
condition is good; the immediate past librarian Blake Beem and the
present librarian Joan Titley have discharged the duties of their office
faithfully and satisfactorily in the best tradition of their predecessors.
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The Irish Censorship of Publications Act, 1946, is denounced by L.

R. C. Agnew in his article "Celtic Twilight" in Kansas Business Review,
1962, 15.
Chauncey D. Leake's address as retiring president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, delivered in Denver on
28 December 1961, was published the following day in Science, 134, 2069-
2079. Entitled "The Scientific Status of Pharmacology," it provides a help-
ful review of the development of pharmacology as a science and is insistently
historical in its emphasis.
Of interest for the early history of studies on the physiology of aging
is Vladimir Nikolaevich Nikitin's Russian Studies on Age-Associated
Physiology, Biochemistry and Morphology as translated by Paul dePorte
from the fuller publication, in Russian, of 1958 and published by the
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, in i960.

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The covers of the tenth anniversary number (November, 1961) of
News to the Friends of the Library of the History of Medicine, issued from
the University of Kansas Medical Center, carry in reproduction a variety
of fascinating stamps and inscriptions of ownership selected from the
library's books. These devices are often in themselves documents of medical
history.
It is fitting to make special mention here of the satirical essay by the
late Frederick C. Irving entitled "Aesculapius Inspects the Harvard Medical
School" (New York Medicine, 1961, 17, 938-945). It was reprinted in this
issue of 20 December "to add merriment to the coming holiday season."
The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissen-
schaft und Technik will hold its 45th annual meeting 10-14 October
1962 in Bad Driburg (Westphalia).
S. N. Gaiio (Journal, 1961, 16, 314) reappears in The Leech, Autumn,
1961 with an article entitled "Books and their Enemies." It was written
during frenzy induced when his part-time maid Aida undertook to dust
his 3,000 books. The result was dire to both their phyiscal condition and
their arrangement on the shelves. Lind on scurvy, for example, had parted
with its tide page and cover, the seven volumes of The Papers of Thomas
Jefferson were shelved in the order 4, 2, 3, 1, 7 (upside down), 5, 6, and
the two volumes of the Loeb Suetonius were separated by Pinocchio.