The Surgeon Midwife Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine.
When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful - unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that's before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre `treatments', more likely to kill than cure...
As ever, the true picture is somewhat different. Here, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began to take shape. Medical educatio...