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 alteative 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 alteative 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.