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The Mesmerist

- The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 320 sider

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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, theLancet, and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice.

Then, in the summer of 1837, a French visitor - the self-styled Baron Jules Denis Dupotet - arrived in London to promote an exotic new idea: mesmerism. The mesmerism mania would take the nation by storm but would ultimately split the two friends, and the medical world, asunder - throwing into focus fundamental questions about the fine line between medicine and quackery, between science and superstition.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal320
  • Udgivelsesdato08-03-2018
  • ISBN139781474602310
  • Forlag Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt316 g
  • Dybde2,4 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    13,5 cm
    19,9 cm

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