Before the fringe - Quackery and the eighteenth-century medical market, R.Porter; the commodity water - hydropath in Matlock, K.Rees; professional organization and the development of medical knowledge - two interpretations of homeopathy, G.Ranklin; alternative medicine, alternative cosmology, R.Cooter; the nineteenth-century afterlife of paracelsus, C.Webster; an imponderable liberator - J.J.Garth Wilkinson, L.Barrow; theatre and laboratory - medical attitudes to animal magnetism in late nineteenth-century Italy- P.Guarnieri; medical botany around 1850 - American medicine in industrial Britain, U.Miley and J.Pickstone; Andrew Taylor Still and the social origins of osteopathy, N.Gevitz.
