Author: MILLER, ANDREW (1961-)
Title: Ingenious pain / Andrew Miller
Description: London : Hodder and Stoughton 1997. Later Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; 337 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; 'A Sceptre book'. Summary; The rise. fall and redemption of an extraordinary man born unable to feel pain. Growing up in the West Country in the mid-18th century. James Dyer grows up to become a brilliant surgeon. En route to St Petersburg he meets a witchlike woman who proves both his nemesis and saviour. Subjects; 18th century. Medicine — History — 18th century. Nervous System Malformations. Physicians — history. Pain. Surgeons. Physicians — Europe — Fiction. Physicians — England — Fiction. English fiction — 20th century. Europe — History — 18th century — Fiction. Historical fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General. Physicians ; Fiction. Genres; Historical fiction. Novels. ISBN: 0340682078. Weight in Kg appr.:

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