Sawbones

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Ever wondered how one might treat a baby with colic? An alcohol-chloroform-morphine concoction. Or about a lady who just loved the taste of that raw, cholera-infected water in 1854 South London? Or the poor and unfortunate fate of alligator parts? The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine is here to bounce from topic to topic, with some shorter interludes for weird medical questions from listeners/readers, all infused with jokes and asides that leaven some particularly gruesome and gory medical scenarios. Twists and turns, mystery and mayhem together with fascinating details about 18th Century London. I found this a hugely exciting read.’ -Mary Hooper The editing in this book is egregious. There are maybe a dozen obvious typos and errors, and that’s in a revised edition that was released after the initial was widely criticized for being even messier. The 2020 edition also contains an opening chapter containing plague history, to relate to Covid-19, but the tone is so smug that even if you agree with every point they are making, you resent it. The latter half, which presumably had more time with an editor, fares better, but not by much. Sawbones’s narration was as clean cut and objective as the scalpel and the mind of he that wields them.’ Big Book Little Book www.bigbooklittlebook.com/2014/01/sawbones/

Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern

Sawbones won the 2014 Young Quills Award for best historical fiction for over 12s. It has been shortlisted for the Rotherham Book Award, the Salford Children’s Book Prize and the Hoo Kids Book Award.

Johnson’s heroine has a brave and endearing voice….I loved the visual detail.’– Adele Geras Times Educational Supplement Sawbones won the Young Quills Award for best historical fiction for under-12s in 2014, the year after it was published. Johnson also wrote a sequel, Blade and Bone (2016), which takes Ezra and Loveday from London to 18 th century Paris, where the dangerous French Revolution is well underway. Ezra slowly, carefully, unwrapped the body. It was a strange life, he knew that's what others thought, that they judged him. People wanted cures but didn't know how to come by them. But William McAdam was no ghoul. How did people imagine surgeons knew where to cut, how to cut and how far to cut? You couldn't have one without the other. Walang boring part kasi yung pagtry ni Ezra and Loveday iuncover yung mystery ng pagkamatay ng mga taong malapit sakanila, medyo thrilling. Yung kagustuhan nilang magrevenge, napasok tuloy sila sa kung anu anong kaguluhan na. Medyo adventurous ang kinalabasan. I loved loved loved everything about it, and something that surprised me is how much coziness one could fit in a story about a string of murders, a young surgeon and grave robbers. I loved the friendships, the emotions, the light humour and the historical bits. I just fell head over heels for this story, and I dug my own grave.

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Sawbones is the story of Ezra, a young apprentice surgeon – or ‘sawbones’ – working in 18 th century London. When his master is killed, he meets Loveday Finch, who is looking for answers about her father’s murder. Together, they must discover what connects the two deaths, and why a mysterious organisation called the Ottoman Embassy may be behind them. Nominated for the Lancashire Children’s Book of the year award‘Roll up! Roll up! To Meet HERO the toughest girl in LondonIf I had to find one thing to criticie it is that they clearly tried to stay away from sensitive topics for the most part, as was the case on the early days of their show. The most recent practice that is criticised is Homeopathy, and even there they do not go after contemporary practitioners as much as they could. Other topics I would love to see given this book treatment are anti vax movement, and other currently practiced psuedscientific and fake medical practices. I did not want to put this novel down. Ezra shows us the world of cadavers from the perspective of medical science, whilst the brave yet vulnerable Loveday introduces the mystery. Together they discover a web of intrigue. The book is both original and informative. For a small book, this was filled with MANY descriptions of surgeries and body studies, and I did not mind it one bit. If anything, I enjoyed it to the fullest, and learnt even more about medicine in the past. I loved the characters so deeply, and will forever carry them with me. I loved the setting, the aesthetic, the twists of the plot, the writing, the inspiration from the Hunterian museum AND the mystery. Chosen by Booktrust as one of ‘The Best New Children’s Books’ for their spring roundup: ‘Catherine Johnson’s tragic tale of bad lad Devon feels real and dangerous enough to hit home.’ In der Retrospektive mutet vieles unglaublich an und man kann das Leid der Patienten, oder eher Opfer, nur schwer ermessen. Nur, wie kam es zu diesen fragwürdigen Ansätzen, die jeder guten klinischen Praxis und wissenschaftlicher Herangehensweise entbehrten? Was waren die Ursachen so vieler Irrwege?