Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland

Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland
by: David Hamilton (Author)
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1981/1/1
Language: English
Print Length: 318 pages
ISBN-10: 0903937999
ISBN-13: 9780903937993
Book Description
In this new edition of The Healers, David Hamilton provides an alternative history of Scotland: a history of leprosy and plagues, cholera and typhoid, anatomy and bodysnatching, and of surgery before anaesthesia, which had to be performed in a matter of minutes to save the patient's suffering.
About the Author
In this new edition of The Healers, David Hamilton provides an alternative history of Scotland: a history of leprosy and plagues, cholera and typhoid, anatomy and bodysnatching, and of surgery before anaesthesia, which had to be performed in a matter of minutes to save the patient's suffering. Read more