A humorous look at the state of illness and medicine in Tudor England.
General Note
"A Franklin Watts library edition.".
Includes index.
Content Note
Introduction -- Tough start -- Padua-center of learning -- Blood, glorious blood! -- When humor wasn't funny -- Battlefield horrors -- Plagued by infections -- Hospital surgery -- Quacks and witches -- Herbs and the apothecary -- Barbaric births -- At war again-the Armada -- End of an era.