The Mesmerist
the society doctor who held victorian london spellbound
$34.99
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2018
Summary
The Mesmerist: A Clash of Science and Spectacle in 1800s London
Medicine in the early 1800s was a brutal landscape. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, and treatments often relied on leeches, cupping, and dangerous concoctions.
Amidst this harsh reality, two forward-thinking men sought to revolutionize the field: the progressive physician John Elliotson, and Thomas Wakley, founder of The Lancet magazine.
However, the arrival of the flamboyant Baron Ju…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474602310 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474602312 |
| Author: | Wendy Moore |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 135mm x 24mm |
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Engrossing…her social history of Victorian medicine, which struggled with innovation and provision for the poor, also feels rivetingly topical…[A] witty and instructive tale - DAILY TELEGRAPH
The enthralling story of the Victorian doctor who claimed patients could be cured and operated on with hypnosis - only to be branded a fraud by the medical establishment. Today he’s been triumphantly vindicated - DAILY MAILFascinating…[Moore] brings the London medical world to vivid life. Elliotson’s experiments were covered in lavish detail by contemporary journals, but Moore has made this an altogether richer story by judicious use of details gleaned from diaries, case reports and hospital archives - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTWendy Moore is an expert guide to the world of early 19th-century medicine, and this fascinating book is packed with buccaneering, larger-than-life doctors and gruesome operations, as well as the minutely documented antics of the Okey sisters - THE SPECTATORWendy Moore has written a thrilling account of this odd byway of medical history…she has successfully taken a historical episode and used it to colour in the world of 19th-century scientific endeavour and its attempts to uncover the still-unexplained mysteries of the human unconscious - LITERARY REVIEWAbout The Author
Wendy Moore
Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author. Her first book, THE KNIFE MAN, won the Medical Journalists’ Association Consumer Book Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for both the Saltire and the Marsh Biography Awards. Her second book, WEDLOCK, has been highly acclaimed in reviews and was chosen as one of the ten titles in the Channel 4 TV Book Club. HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFE was published to rapturous reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.
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