Download or read book Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor written by Allan Everett Marble and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Marble describes the practice of medicine and surgery in Nova Scotia during the province's period of early settlement in the last half of the eighteenth century. Investigating such matters as the role of the state in providing medical care, the structure of the medical community, and the physical conditions people had to endure, he situates his discussion in the context of more general Nova Scotian history.