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The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Wendy Moore
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Description for The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Hardback. From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, the story of two pioneering men of science, and a nation in thrall to mesmerism.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGT; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
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 brandy. Onto this scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a hodge-podge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new magazine, the Lancet, and a campaigner ... Read more
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 brandy. Onto this scene came John Elliotson, the dazzling new hope of the medical world. Charismatic and ambitious, Elliotson was determined to transform medicine from a hodge-podge of archaic remedies into a practice informed by the latest science. In this aim he was backed by Thomas Wakley, founder of the new magazine, the Lancet, and a campaigner ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474602297
SKU
9781474602297
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About Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author. Her first book, THE KNIFE MAN, won the Medical Journalists' Association Consumer Book Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for both Saltire and the Marsh Biography Awards. Her second book, WEDLOCK, has been highly acclaimed in reviews and was chosen as one of the ten titles in the Channel 4 TV ... Read more
Reviews for The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
The author's dry asides combined with the unsentimental light she sheds on medical experimentation make this an informative and riveting page turner
Philippa Stockley
COUNTRY LIFE
Highly readable and entertaining
Julie Peakman
HISTORY TODAY
As in all her works, Moore provides evidence of meticulous research with copious notes to be appreciated by the ... Read more
Philippa Stockley
COUNTRY LIFE
Highly readable and entertaining
Julie Peakman
HISTORY TODAY
As in all her works, Moore provides evidence of meticulous research with copious notes to be appreciated by the ... Read more