History of Medicine: Medical Bookman, Medical Bookman and Historian, Medicine Illustrated, 1947

In red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Speckled edges. Likely a later binding. Tall 8vo. Cloth is very gently rubbed at corners and spine tips. Spine a little faded, else neat, clean and tight throughout. Some tanning on endpapers. This volume contains the first 10 issues of the journal Medical Bookman (issued monthly from January to October 1947) and the first two issues of Medical Bookman and Historian, from November and December 1947; and all 1947 issues of Medicine Illustrated. Bound into a single volume. Journals contain a range of articles and reviews, including Anaesthesia in the Classics; On Style in Medical Literature, The Road to Penicillin, Some Books on Penicillin; The Medical Art Society; First Appearance in Print - Sir William Osler; A Collection of Good Books; British Historians of Medicine; The History of Mosquito-Malaria Theory; Sherlock Holmes and the Doctors; and many many more. A goldmine for those with an interest in the history of medicine.