The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound by Wendy Moore

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

Wendy Moore

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative reflective slow-paced
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Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping and toxic potions. It was said of one surgeon 'His surgical acquirements were very small, hi...

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