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The Age of Agony

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Examines in detail the barbarous world of eighteenth-century medicine––the great hospitals, the lying-in rooms, the spas, the quacks.

230 pages, Paperback

Published August 30, 2005

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Guy R. Williams

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August 4, 2013
Now this is interesting. Not many other books make me think I ought to be bled; where can I get a bleeding bowl. And what is the going rate for leeches?
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