Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon by Druin Burch

Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon

Druin Burch

304 pages paperback 2007

3 editions

nonfiction biography history science informative medium-paced
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A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions. He set...

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