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Edited by A. Doig, J.P.S. Ferguson, I.A. Milne, and R. Passmore. 256 pp., illustrated. Edinburgh, Scotland, Edinburgh University Press, 1993. $49. ISBN 0-7486-0302-6. (Distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press, New York).

Two centuries ago, the medical school at the University of Edinburgh was the finest in the world, and its outstanding physician was William Cullen (1710-1790). To mark the bicentennial of his death, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh mounted an exhibition of biographical, medical, and cultural material. An accompanying symposium discussed selected aspects of Cullen's work and its relation to the culture of the era. This book, with its high-quality illustrations, reproduces the material from the exhibit and presents the symposium papers.

Readers versed in the medicine and culture of the period will appreciate the extensive new data that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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