Science and Medieval Thought

For a long time I have looked for a copy of Science and Medieval Thought . More than once I ordered it from book catalogues only to find that I had been anticipated. Now I have gotten a copy of this slim little volume to add to Allbutt's classics— The Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery, On Professional Education , his 2-volume survey of Diseases of the Arteries Including Angina Pectoris , and a well-worn copy of Notes on the Composition of Scientific Papers . I do not know what kind of a doctor Allbutt was. He had the reputation of having been a fine one and is said to have supplied George Eliot with a model for the physician of Middlemarch . That Allbutt was a distinguished writer and classical scholar stands forth clearly in his main published works. Allbutt was much distressed that the somewhat artificial and circumstantial separation of physicians and surgeons