The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England by Alanna Skuse
The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

Alanna Skuse

The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England

Alanna Skuse

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Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine. When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the cliché is dreadful – unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And that’s before you get in...

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