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    No Man's Land

    The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

    by Wendy Moore ...
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    Unabridged

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    The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I.A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's ... Read more

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    The Knife Man

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    When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter. The choice was understandable, for Hunter was both widely acclaimed and greatly feared.From humble origins, John Hunter rose to become the most famous anatomist and surgeon of the eighteenth century. In an age when operations were ... Read more

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