{"product_id":"9781836430773","title":"The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack : How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England by Dr. Alanna Skuse","description":"Discover the remarkable birth of modern medicine... and how not to die in the Renaissance'Meticulously researched and deliciously detailed.' Victoria Shepherd, author of A History of DelusionsThe cliched view medicine in the Renaissance world is dreadful: gore-splattered hacksaws, arsenic concoctions, the four humours and all those leeches…Reality, however, proves somewhat different.\u003cp\u003eIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a medical revolution was afoot. 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, novel medicines and treatments were being discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England – a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover domestic healers like Elizabeth Freke, a doyenne of folk remedies, always ready to dole out tonics and elixirs to her ailing neighbours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse the shelves of the early modern apothecary with Nicholas Culpeper as he lays the groundwork for the modern pharmacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet the expert midwife Jane Sharp, successful author and pioneer of women's health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoin the intrepid plague doctor George Thomson as he braves London's Great Plague.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Humane and entrancing, The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack reveals the people and stories behind a scientific revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 384 pages","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241743925475,"sku":"9781836430773","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781836430773.jpg?v=1759762576","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781836430773","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}