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Bruce Moran’s new book makes an important contribution to the history of science and technology by presenting a rigorous and nuanced interpretation of the chemical work of the German schoolteacher and humanist Andreas Libavius (about 1550–1616)
The History of Tropical Neurology: Nutritional Disorders History of Technology Fall 2011/Winter 2012Bruyn, George W., and Charles M. Poser, 2003, xii + 144pp., large format, 135 illustrations, paperback From the Preface . . . All but one of the six conditions to be discussed in this book were once common in what has now come to be designated as developed countries, the Western world. They are diseases that reflect the ravages of poverty, ignorance, famine, superstition and bigotry, but the resolution of their mystery and the development of