Reviews

“Guenter B. Risse has made a significant contribution to the history of science by translating, editing, and providing a new English bibliography for Rothschuh's History of Physiology, a revised version of the first German edition in which the author states he has ‘made some corrections and inserted the results of important new contributions made by modern ph:ysiological research."
G. Vandervlet, Isis 66 (1) (March 1975): 119-120.

“Now Rothschuh’s History in an updated form has been made available to the English reader. Dr. Risse has not only brought this material together, but keyed the references into the text, leading the reader to important relevant literature that will deepen our understanding. The new edition is a good survey, a fine bird's eye view, but we cannot expect the depth of the precision of detail that more limited monographs can furnish. Yet with the updated bibliography the book will be helpful to the advanced student as well as to the beginner.
Lester S. King, J.A.M.A. 225 , No 7 (Aug 13, 1973): 755.

“Rothschuh and Risse have enlarged the bibliography substantially, making it a valuable research tool, and have emphasized English translations… Rothschuh’s enlarged treatment of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is useful because it groups physiologists into schools… Risse has made the translation less technical than the original, rendering it more accessible to the general reader.”
K. Figlio, British J. for the History of Science 10 (1977):163-64