Author(s): Geoffrey W. Rice

Early NZ | Secondhand

Secondhand. Signed by the author.

Meet some colourful and quarrelsome doctors.

A fascinating and important story of  increasing professionalism in a period of major transition from the era of blood-letting and miasmas to the modern medical world of bacteriology and epidemiology, vaccination and aseptic surgery. Surgical successes and failures are detailed, along with treatments of the day for a variety of ailments and diseases.

Fine.