26 OCTOBER 1929, Page 45

The profession of medicine is one of the most useful

and honourable professions in communal life. It is natural, therefore, that it should have given us great men, and men of a singularly human quality. In The Harley Street Calendar (Constable, 7s. 6d.) Dr. H. H. Bashford has given us studies of eleven typical English doctors, including Linacre, Harvey, Sloane, Hunter, Simpson and Lister. He has many intimate and little known anecdotes to tell of his subjects ; he writes with simplicity and directness ; and his book will be as much enjoyed by the general reader as by the man with a special Interest in medicine.

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