The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery

Wendy Moore

341 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science reflective slow-paced
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When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly ...

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