Journeys In Diverse Places

By Ambroise Paré and Stephen Paget

Book Overview

* This e-book publication is unique which includes exclusive Introduction, Historical Background and Notes.* This edition also includes detailed Biography, including further reading suggestions.* A new table of contents with working links has been included by a publisher.* This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors.Ambroise Pare was born in the village of Bourg-Hersent, near Laval, in Maine, France, about 1510. He was trained as a barber- surgeon at a time when a barber-surgeon was inferior to a surgeon and the professions of surgeon and physician were kept apart by the law of the Church that forbade a physician to shed blood. Under whom he served his apprenticeship is unknown, but by 1533 he was in Paris, where he received an appointment as house surgeon at the Hotel Dieu. After three or four years of valuable experience in this hospital, he set up in private practise in Paris, but for the next thirty years he was there only in the intervals of peace; the rest of the time he followed the army. He became a master barber-surgeon in 1541.In Pare's time the armies of Europe were not regularly equipped with a medical service. The great nobles were accompanied by their private physicians; the common soldiers doctored themselves, or used the services of barber-surgeons and quacks who accompanied the army as adventurers. "When Pare joined the army" says Paget, "he went simply as a follower of Colonel Montejan, having neither rank, recognition, nor regular payment. His fees make up in romance for their irregularity: a cask of wine, fifty double ducats and a horse, a diamond, a collection of crowns and half-crowns from the ranks, other honorable presents and of great value'; from the King himself, three hundred crowns, and a promise he would never let him be in want; another diamond, this time from the finger of a duchess: and a soldier once offered a bag of gold to him."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1482091283
• ISBN13: 9781482091281
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.2" x 5.0"