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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
By Alanna Skuse
Hardcover
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By Alanna Skuse
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Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance
'An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times
'A richly researched and atmospheric history.' Wall Street Journal
The cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful: gore-splattered hacksaws, arsenic concoctions, the four humours and all those leeches…
Reality, however, proves somewhat different...
'An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.' Dan Jones, The Sunday Times
'A richly researched and atmospheric history.' Wall Street Journal
The cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful: gore-splattered hacksaws, arsenic concoctions, the four humours and all those leeches…
Reality, however, proves somewhat different...
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