From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, the story of two pioneering men of science, and a nation in thrall to mesmerism...
The author of Richard & Judy TV Book Club hit "Wedlock" uncovers the story behind the mesmerism trend that controversially divided the medical world of the early 1800s, focusing on the personal divisions that the arrival of mesmerism brought about between "Lancet" founder Thomas Wakley and medical reformer John Elliotson.