Good Golf Guide to Scotland

Sports & Outdoors

DAVID HAMILTON

Golf

Canongate Publishing

Scotland offers almost unique opportunities for medical historians. For a conventional history, there is a rich stock of famous doctors and their discoveries. There are also the contributions of four ancient universities and three equally old colleges of physicians and surgeons. For historians of public health there is the famous struggle against the problems of the industrial revolution and the lives and works of the great sanitary reformers in Glasgow and Edinburgh. For the social historian there are equal opportunities in the diversity of the health care in the Highlands and Lowlands, the rich traditions of Scottish folk medicine and the interactions of Scottish and English medical practice. Much else can be learnt in relating Scotland's great innovative periods to her cultural and political state at the time. It is perhaps surprising therefore that there are no up-to-date accounts of any of these aspects of health and health care in Scotland. . . . there are now many new sources available and new questions to be asked. -from the Introduction In this book, author David Hamilton explores new sources and evaluates the rich history of medicinal practices in Scotland. Thus, for historians both of medicine and of Scotland, this study is necessary to more fully understand the country's history.

Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hamilton, Dr. David

Alternative Medicine

Reothairt is contraigh: Taghadh de dhàin, 1932-72

Literature & Fiction

MacGill-Eain, Somhairle

Poetry

Weathering: Poems and Translations

Alastair Reid began publishing poetry in the New Yorker in 1951 and has since contributed reviews, translations, stories, and reportage as well. Having lived variously in Scotland, the United States, Spain, France, Greece, Switzerland, Central and South America, Reid has until recently called Magazine his only permanent address.Many of the poems in Weathering arise from Reid’s itinerant life. Chosen by the poet from previous books published on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1950s, they range from the windowed corridors of New York city to Isla Negra, Chile, where the poet sits 'with the Pacific between my toes.'Whether lyric or narrative, whether moved by wit, irony, or humor, all Reid’s poems test the strength of language to summon the moment when amazement ran through the senses like a flame’ and gauge the power of words to catch fire in an instant of realization. Including translations of poems by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, and Jose Emilio Pacheco, Weathering displays the diverse talents of the poet, the recurring preoccupations of the itinerant traveler, seeking to encompass the world with words.

Weathering: Poems and translations

REID, Alastair

The new better handwriting

Thomson, George Lawrie

First edition. New version of Thomson's Better Handwriting, with revised instructions and illustrations. ii , 45 pages, with illustrations. stiff paper wrappers.. oblong 12mo..

European choice: Good and simple recipes

Michaelis-Jena, Ruth.

Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet: A Critical Study

George Woodcock

Humor & Satire

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