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1. Ancient Natural History

   Histories of Nature

   By Roger French

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to...

   Published October 26th 1994 by Routledge
2. British Medicine in an Age of Reform

   By Roger French, Andrew Wear

   British Medicine in an Age of Reform, charts the nature and dynamics of the radical changes which occurred between 1780 and 1850 - a great turning point in British medicine. Medicine was reformed just as politics was being reformed. It became a recognizable profession, and at the same time there...

   Published October 2nd 1991 by Routledge