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  • The Hexagon Club and British Neurology between the Wars

    by Alastair Compston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    In 1930, George Riddoch, Charles Symonds, Russell Brain, Hugh Cairns, Macdonald Critchley, and Derek Denny-Brown formed the Hexagon Club with the aim of discussing over dinner developments in medical and surgical neurology. Over the next 10 years, they met on 32 occasions, sometimes with guests, and discussed 42 topics of past or emerging clinical and research interest. Honed in this way, the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • 'All manner of ingenuity and industry'

    A bio-bibliography of Thomas Willis 1621 - 1675

    by Alastair Compston ...
    This book celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis on 27 January 1621. As a physician in Oxford, Willis's work in the 1650s provides an example of rural medical practice in early modern England. As a member of the Oxford Philosophical Club that met from the 1640s, he was central to the move from classical scholasticism to accounts of anatomy and physiology based on observation ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • RCP 9: Simples and Rarities Suitable and Honourable to the College

    by Alastair Compston ...
    Series Book 9 - 500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018
    The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up to 500 reflections on 500 years. Some of the people, ideas, objects and manuscripts featured are directly connected to the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Queen Square: A History of the National Hospital and its Institute of Neurology

    by Simon Shorvon, Alastair Compston, Andrew Lees, Michael J. Clark, Martin Rossor ...
    As the first neurological hospital in the world, founded in 1859, the National Hospital, Queen Square, and its affiliated Institute of Neurology remain leading neurological centres providing exceptional clinical services, teaching and research. Illustrated by over 100 historical images and much unpublished archival material, this book provides a comprehensive history of the National Hospital, the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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  • A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921

    Printed Legacies: Tracing Cambridge University Press's Scholarly Evolution

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    Series Book 21 - Delphi Series Eight
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