The Healers: A History of Medicine in Scotland

This goes a long way to explain the late arrival of modern medicine. At many times an expose of the control the church had on our life and death in the past, this shows the tremendous growth of knowledge and abilities that arrived in the nineteenth century and how much of it was born in Scotland. Anti-biotics, anasthesia and surgery have a tremendous amount to thank the Scottish medical profession for and the seat of learning in Scotland were without comparison in most parts of the world.