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Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81.4 (2007) 908

Book Notes
The Editors
Philippe Mudry. Medicina, soror philosophiae: Regards sur la littérature et les textes médicaux antiques (1975–2005). Collected and edited by Brigitte Maire. Bibliothèque d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé. Lausanne, Switzerland: Éditions BHMS, 2006. xxiv + 545 pp. Ill. €32.00 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 2-9700536-0-8, ISBN-13: 978-2-9700536-0-6).

This volume is a collection of fifty essays written by Dr. Mudry and printed in journals and books between 1977 and 2006. Jackie Pigeaud, in a preface, calls it "un beau livre, un vrai livre"—indeed, a book to make the reader rejoice (p. xix). She also believes it to be the best introduction in existence to the subject of Roman medicine. The articles are accompanied by a supplementary bibliography, several illustrations, and four indexes: of authors and passages cited in the essays, of notable figures in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, of writings by modern authors on these periods, and of Latin and Greek terms of particular lexical interest. [End Page 908]

James Lowry. Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet. Edited by John Millyard. London: Chatham Publishing; Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006. 192 pp. $24.95 (ISBN-10: 1-86176-268-2, ISBN-13: 9781861762689).

The journal of a young Irish physician, this document was given to Millyard by the Canadian great-great-granddaughter of Lowry's brother. It was written in response to a request from this brother for a short history of Lowry's life, and encompasses the years between his departure from Ireland in 1797 and his return home in 1804. Lowry goes to sea and joins the Mediterranean fleet (1798), accompanies an expedition to Egypt and becomes a prisoner of war (1801), engages in peacetime pursuits around the Mediterranean (1802–3), returns to war (1803), and is shipwrecked off the coast of Spain and rescued (1804).

The editor describes the book as an "extended personal letter" (p. 7), which has been structured for this edition by the addition of a title and chapter headings. Nothing has been deleted, the editor says; however, occasional conjunctions and prepositions have been added for clarity, and the spelling and punctuation modernized.

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