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Early Victorian Age
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Junior Doctor
Medical History
Medical Profession
Medical Treatments
Medicine
Medicine in the 19th Century
Provincial General Hospital
W.G. Stutter
Product details
- ISBN 9781843831136
- Weight: 1g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A transcription of the notes made by a young doctor during his time working at a provincial general hospital.
For most of his career W.G. Stutter [1815-77] was a respected general medical practitioner in the village of Wickhambrook, a small Suffolk backwater. As a younger man, however, he spent some time as House Apothecary and House Surgeon to the Suffolk General Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. Though just a record of a junior doctor in a small provincial hospital, this casebook is actually a surprisingly rare document of its kind and as such is a wonderful record of the medicine and medical profession of the period, in a place far removed from the great teaching hospitals. This is a time before X-rays, antibiotics, scanners and blood tests - in fact even the stethoscope was a relatively recent development. Stutter's casebook throws considerable light on the state of medicine in the early Victorian age and shows that while many of the treatments meted out by the medical profession seem illogical or sometimes even dangerous to modern eyes, they must have made perfect sense to the average doctor of the time.
