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The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England by Dr.Alanna Skuse #literature Discover how to assessDiscover the remarkable birth of modern medicine. When we imagine Renaissance medicine, the clich is dreadful unsterile instruments, a total lack of anaesthetics and shocking levels of infant and maternal mortality. And thats before you get into astrology, bloodletting and a litany of bizarre treatments, more likely to kill than cureAs ever, the true picture is somewhat different. Here, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, modern medicine began