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Book Summary
About the Book: Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack
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.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot.
Physicians education was being formalised. Surgeons were documenting the
intricacies
- ISBN-13
- 9781836432609
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Oneworld
- Publishing Date
- 2026-10-01
- Total Pages
- 384
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Book Summary
About the Book: Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack
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.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot.
Physicians education was being formalised. Surgeons were documenting the
intricacies
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9781836432609
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Oneworld
- Publishing Date
- 2026-10-01
- Total Pages
- 384