The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack

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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack is written by Alanna Skuse and published by Simon and Schuster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1836430787 (ISBN 10) and 9781836430780 (ISBN 13).

Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine. The cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful – gore-splattered hacksaws and no whiff of any anaesthetics or antibiotics. And that’s before you delve into arsenic potions, the theory of 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 of the human body with ever-greater skill. And, as European powers expanded into the New World, novel medicines and treatments were being discovered. Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants. There’s the domestic healer, always ready to dole out tonics and elixirs to her ailing neighbours; the expert midwife, called upon when the physician and surgeon failed; the trusted apothecary, his shop stocked with remedies from across the globe. Humane and entrancing, The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack reveals the people and stories behind a scientific revolution.