Quotes from The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present by Roy Porter. I: The prominence of medicine has lain only in small measure in its ability to make the sick well.

Roy Porter, who died in 2002 aged 51, was said to know more about the 18th century than any then man alive. With a double starred first from Cambridge he joined the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in … Continue reading →