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By Roy Porter. 574 pp. New York, Norton, 2004. $29.95. ISBN 0-393-05075-0.

Roy Porter died too young. One of the most distinguished and prolific medical historians of the day, Porter had recently taken early retirement from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London when, in the spring of 2002, he collapsed while riding his bicycle and died at the age of 55. This book, alas, will be his last.

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And what a book it is. Porter takes us on a romp through the long 18th century, exploring ideas about health and disease, ruminations about the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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