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The Wolves Who Cry Wolf

James Lefanu MASS LISTERIA by Theodore Dalrymple Deutsch, £8.99, pp. 157 here was a time not so long ago when medicine dealt in reliable knowledge. The Queen Mother's hip......

King's Gambit Declined

Parviz C. Radji THE PRIEST AND THE KING by Desmond Harney I. B. Tauris, £24.50, pp. 205 H istory abounds in instances where omnipotent kings have rid themselves of meddlesome......