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Children's Comedy Crime Documentary Drama. Music Musical Mystery Romance Sci-fi. Mystery Romance Science Fiction Travel. These memoirs are well written and remind you of the writings of Fielding or DeFoe or Smollett.
Dietz managed to experience a lot during his long life and had a witty way of relating those experiences. You get a good idea of surgery during that period.
There were no chemical antiseptics and no anaesthetics. Nothing in the way of major surgery requiring time or expertise could be attempted at all.
The patient simply had to be left to die if his injuries were more complex than mere binding up, bleeding, lancing, cauterization, excision or amputation could ameliorate. The effects of these treatments, however, were often fatal in any event.
If you can find a copy of this book, pick it up. You will be delighted at the story and its telling.
Dec 07, Oneashley rated it liked it. I'm a die hard fan of historical diaries and this one doesn't disappoint too much. The first half is full of adventure while the remaining slows down to an almost skip-able pace laden with Dietz's complaining about his wife and how is he always embroiled in some sort of court case.
I never really understood what his job was, he randomly cures people without the use of blood letting and then also is a barber, what?
What can I take away from this book? Babies and young children were always dying I'm a die hard fan of historical diaries and this one doesn't disappoint too much.
Babies and young children were always dying, his wife was a drunk, never get married, and be a pirate. He goes into 'praise the lord' rants a bit, which I skimmed in order to remain sane. Sep 19, Colin rated it liked it. What a curate's egg of a book. Travel scenes, war descriptions, and life as an explorer were all engaging and interesting, and sometimes enjoyable. But domestic details of fighting with the missus, and endless appeals to various courts, were somewhat hard to follow, so many characters involved, and tedious to say the least.
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