{"product_id":"mesmerist-hb-z25","title":"Wendy Moore: The Mesmerist [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMedicine, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnto 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\u003ci\u003e Lancet\u003c\/i\u003e, and a campaigner against corruption and malpractice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Moore, Wendy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42043509145785,"sku":"9781474602297","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/moore-wendy-wendy-moore-the-mesmerist-2017-hardback-9781474602297-60490595893587.jpg?v=1734756785","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/mesmerist-hb-z25","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}