The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack

‘The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack by Alanna Skuse is an entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dry wit.’ —Dan Jones, The Sunday Times

‘Fascinating.’ —Daily Mail

‘In Ms. Skuse’s expert and frequently humorous telling, Renaissance medicine comes to life in all its gory and weird splendor. She offers us a glimpse of the medical marketplace at its birth but also provides us with a distant mirror… readers will encounter surprising characters in a richly researched and atmospheric history of the medical Renaissance.’ —Wall Street Journal

‘A positive pharmacopoeia of physic from a bygone age… Eye-opening and perception changing, with just the right amount of gore, a must-read.’ —Prof John Tregoning, author of Infectious

‘Astonishing… Skuse’s meticulously researched and deliciously detailed book brings a vivid cast of characters out of the shadows, and gives a proper place to the unsung pioneers.’ —Victoria Shepherd, author of A History of Delusions

Dr Alanna Skuse is a literary scholar, historian and author. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Reading and has written and broadcasted for BBC Radio, Wellcome Stories, the Conversation and History Today.

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