Auteur: Peter Bennett

Peter Bennett is the co-author of a number of books, one of which has been translated into 8 languages. Based in the UK he normally immerses himself in the world of medicinal drug use. He was an advisor to the World Health Organization on the testing of drugs and his book on drugs in breast milk is used in hospitals across the world. Almost 50 years ago as a graduate of the University of Aberdeen he knew of the work of Alexander Gordon on child-bed fever but only more recently became aware of the remarkable manuscript which had lain practically unopened for 220 years. That document, a detailed and vivid account of the practices and medicine in the late 18th century was written by a Georgian physician who was forced to leave his home city for the audacity of his theories on the transmission of infection between patients. Long after his death they eerily proved to be valid. Peter Bennett, now retired, lives in Bath, UK where he has practiced medicine and raised his family for the last thirty years. This book is the result of an impelling desire to see a fellow physicians notes and observations on 18th century diagnosis and treatment finally recognized by their just place in the history of medical writing.