Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Jeremy Dronfield, Michael du Preez

Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time

Jeremy Dronfield, Michael du Preez

496 pages 2016

4 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, lady killer, eccentric. He performed the first Caesarean in Africa, was deported from St Helena and gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down in the Crimea. At home,...

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