| Stutter's Casebook: A Junior Hospital Doctor, 1839-1841 Contributor(s): Cockayne, E. E. (Editor), Stow, N. J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1843832895 ISBN-13: 9781843832898 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Biography & Autobiography | Medical (incl. Patients) - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Series: Suffolk Records Society |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.36" W x 9.18" (1.15 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
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| Publisher Description: 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 recordof 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 sometimeseven dangerous to modern eyes, they must have made perfect sense to the average doctor of the time. |