Bare-knuckle Surgeon

<p></p><p>Incompetent surgeons corrupt royal colleges nepotism and quackery. The medical establishment - a small coterie of self-serving doctors - went unchallenged.</p><p>Until 1823 when a young surgeon son of a farmer who'd survived being at sea mastered bare-knuckle fighting and escaped assassination did what no doctor had dared.</p><p>Risking ruin Thomas Wakley established The Lancet an uncompromising radical journal which scandalized the establishment and initiated modern health care.</p><p>Why him? What made him do what thousands hadn't?</p><p>Based on true events this novel tells how this ingenious man overcame adversities driven by his passion for reform.</p><p></p>