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By Harold J. Cook. 301 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. $45. ISBN 0-8018-4778-8.

Harold Cook is well known as a historian for his work on 17th-century English medicine. His work covers the beginning of the long-drawn-out change from the medicine of antiquity to the new medicine that was supported by the philosophies of the scientific revolution. The Anglican medical establishment of the time, chartered as the College of Physicians, was often nervous about these innovations. The college acted through its censors to police the practice of medicine in London, watching out for quackery, advertising, and infringements of its royal monopoly. The college did not stand for all physicians, however. There were many outsiders: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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