Cambridge and its contribution to medicine : proceedings of the Seventh British Congress on the History of Medicine, University of Cambridge, 10-13 September, 1969 / edited by Arthur Rook

London : Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine , 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Birmingham Medical Institute (with accompanying bookplate and stamp). Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 298 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., facsims., plans, ports. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Series; Publications of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. New series ; v. 20. Contents; Introduction / Arthur Rook -- Medical education in Cambridge before 1600 / A.H. T. Robb-Smith -- John Caius (1510-73) / W. S. C. Copeman -- Francis Glisson / R. Milnes Walker -- Medical education at Cambridge 1600-1800 / Arthur Rook -- Anatomy and physiology in Cambridge before 1850 / Bernard Towers -- Medical education in Cambridge in the Nineteenth Century / Ruth G. Hogkinson -- Haviland, Paget and Humphry: the introduction of clinical teaching at Cambridge / Arthur Rook -- The early history of the department of pathology at Cambridge / Raymond Williamson --The Cambridge School of Physiology: 1850-1900 / David H. M. Woollam -- The rise of biochemistry in the Nineteenth Century, with particular reference to the University of Cambridge / F. G. Young -- The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S. (1836-1925) / Rt. Hon. Lord Cohen of Birkenhead -- The Cambridge School of Physiology, 1900-1937 / Henry Barcroft -- Haldane and Cambridge genetics, 1900-1950 / J. H. Edwards -- Contributions of Cambridge to biochemistry since 1920 / Malcolm Dixon -- Cambridge and the evolution of the knowledge of vitamins / E. Kodicek -- Cambridge medicine and the Medical School in the Twentieth Century / Leslie Cole. Subjects; Caius, John 1510-1573. Glisson, Francis. Allbutt, T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) 1836-1925. University of Cambridge - History. University of Cambridge. School of Physiology. University of Cambridge - Studies. University of Cambridge. Medical School. Medicine - Great Britain - Congresses. Medical education - England - Cambridge. Education, Medical - history. History of medicine - Europe - Great Britain - Cambridge. Education, Medical - history - Congresses. Education, Medical - history - England. History of Medicine - England - Congresses. History, Modern 1601- - England. Medicine - History. Medicine - Great Britain. Medical personnel - Education - University of Cambridge, to 1970 - Conference proceedings. Genre; Bibliography. Biography. Conference proceedings. Conference publication. EDUCATION, MEDICINE - history - Great Britain - Cambridge. HISTORY OF MEDICINE - Great Britain - Cambridge.