SURGEON THE MIDWIFE THE QUACK (PB)

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was taking place. Physicians' education was being formalised. Surgeons were documenting the intricacies of the human body with ever-greater skill. And as European powers expanded into the New World, new medicines and treatments were being discovered. This book ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England - a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants, expert midwives and plague doctors.