Wendy Moore

Explains how John Hunter, a brilliant but notorious surgeon, revolutionized surgical techniques and principles in eighteenth-century London, describing his contributions in the field of geology and evolution, as well as his development of innovative medical techniques and principles for successful transplants that transcended his time. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

The Knife Man

The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I -- and who transformed medicine in the process A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments and lively atmosphere. In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.

The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

No Man's Land

Traces the dramatic story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, the richest heiress in 18th-century Britain and an ancestor of the current queen, as she stumbles headlong into scandal when, following her first husband's death, a charming young army hero flatters his way into the widow's bed, marries her, and embarks on a campaign of violence, and cruelty against his bride to take control of her vast fortune.

The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore

Wedlock

Traces the efforts of eighteenth-century author and radical Thomas Day to create an ideal wife, describing how he adopted two young orphans and raised them according to the extreme principles of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Enlightenment.

BritainÕs Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate

How to Create the Perfect Wife

The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery

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, the Lancet, 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.

The Mesmerist

Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur. Evelina Haverfield was the daughter of a baron. They met in 1908, fell in love and became public faces of the suffragette movement. Their toughest trials came with the First World War, when they found themselves in Serbia, Russia, and Romania running hospitals for allied soldiers and driving ambulances under bombardment. 
This is a story of lifelong devotion, played out against a backdrop of intense danger, hair-raising adventure and unthinkable sacrifice. 

Two Suffragettes in Love and at War

Jack and Eve

The searing sequel from the author who brought you "Into The Void...with Ace Frehley." As featured on The E! True Hollywood Story in 2009.

Out of the Void

New Holland (Publishers) Ltd

Pinpoints key buildings and places of interest-including beaches, golf courses, and nature reserves-as well as where to stay. Distance and climate charts enable travelers to plan their visits, while stunning photographs conjure up Malaysia's special atmosphere.

Road Atlas of Malaysia

Malaysia: A Pictorial History 1400?2004 documents the history of Malaysia from the beginning of the Melakan Sultanate approximately 600 years ago to the emergence of Malaysia as a modern nation during the last two centuries.

A Pictorial History, 1400-2004

Malaysia

WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain's richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young, and pregnant with her lover's child, Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment, seizing her lands, beating her, terrorising servants, introducing prostitutes to the family home, kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years, a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day and was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her and undertook a week-long rampage of terror and cruelty until the law finally caught up with him.

How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match

Meticulously researched, this is a portrait of a scientist determined to haul surgery into the dawn of modern medicine. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," is reputedly based on 18th century surgeon John Hunter who revolutionized surgical practice through his groundbreaking experiments.

Chirurg. Krew, złodzieje ciał i narodziny nowoczesnej chirurgii

Khadijah Moore

Haunting Stories : 23 True Life Encounters in Singapore and Malaysia

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson that meant moving to France, where they set up two small military hospitals amidst fierce opposition. Yet their medical and organisational skills were so impressive that in 1915 Flora and Louisa were asked by the War Ministry to return to London and establish a new military hospital in a vast and derelict old workhouse in Covent Garden's Endell Street. That they did, creating a 573-bed hospital staffed from top to bottom by female surgeons, doctors and nurses, and developing entirely new techniques to deal with the horrific mortar and gas injuries suffered by British soldiers. Receiving 26,000 wounded men over the next four years, Flora and Louisa created such a caring atmosphere that soldiers begged to be sent to Endell Street. And then, following the end of the war and the Spanish Flu outbreak, the hospital was closed and Flora, Louisa and their staff were once again sidelined in the medical profession. The story of Endell Street provides both a keyhole view into the horrors and thrills of wartime London and a long-overdue tribute to the brilliance and bravery of an extraordinary group of women.

The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital

Endell Street

Las doctoras británicas Flora Murray y Louisa Garrett Anderson lo dejaron todo cuando estalló la primera guerra mundial, incluyendo su lucha activa por el derecho al voto de la mujer, para trasladarse a Francia donde crearon dos pequeños hospitales militares. A pesar de que en su país las mujeres no podían atender a hombres, sus capacidades médicas y organizativas resultaron ser tan impresionantes que, en 1915, el Ministerio de la Guerra les pidió que regresaran a Londres y pusieran en marcha un nuevo hospital militar en un enorme y antiguo hospicio abandonado en la calle Endell de Covent Garden. Consiguieron lo imposible. Crearon y dirigieron un hospital de 573 camas cuyo personal estaba formado exclusivamente por mujeres: médicas, cirujanas y enfermeras. Durante los siguientes cuatro años, recibieron a 26.000 heridos y desarrollaron técnicas completamente nuevas con las que lidiar con las horribles heridas de los morteros y el gas que sufrían los soldados. Y cuando la guerra estaba acabando y apareció la epidemia de la gripe española, el hospital cerró sus puertas y Flora, Louisa y todas las mujeres de su equipo fueron de nuevo marginadas a la hora de ejercer su profesión: se les volvió a decir que aquel no era lugar para mujeres. La historia del hospital de la calle Endell nos brinda tanto una visión fundamental de los horrores y amenazas que sufrió Londres durante la guerra como un apasionado homenaje a la valentía de un extraordinario grupo de mujeres.

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