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Edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter. 331 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-36114-1.

The 14 papers in this book, originally presented at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1987, deal with the ways human senses are involved in medical diagnosis. Based mostly on British sources, they rely on primary printed and manuscript sources. The great strength of this symposium is not only that it avoids "presentism" -- interpretation or, worse, denigration of the past according to currently fashionable criteria -- but also that the authors, with few exceptions, get inside our predecessors' minds thoroughly enough that we can understand how diagnostic reasoning moved from observation and interrogation of patients to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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