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320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781474602310
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of b...
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320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781474602310
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld Nicolson
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. The most surgeons could offer by way of pain relief was a large swig of b...