The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the 19th Century
Guy Williams

Category: History/Medicine
Format: Trade paperback, 256pp, 5 x 8, 14 Illus.
ISBN: 0-89733-285-7
Price: $16.95

Also by Guy Williams: The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700–1800

About the Book

The history of medical treatment from the barbarous era of the 18th century through the revolutionary and often bizarre changes of the 19th century: the introduction of anesthesia and antiseptics, hospital reform and explorations of "alternative" medicine.