Published June, 2015
By Rachel Bairsto
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
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Early dentistry was amateurish and limited to barber-surgeons, travelling tooth-pullers and blacksmiths, with patients often suffering as much from the cure as the malady. This book looks at this history and at the professionalism seen from the late nineteenth century onwards, which has led to very dramatic improvements in dental treatment.

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Published March, 2014
By Dr Susan Cohen
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
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The numbers of the dead and wounded in the First World War were horrendous and unprecedented. This book tells the stories of the services that risked all to collect casualties from the battlefield by stretcher and/or ambulance, of the frontline hospitals that offered primary treatment.

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Published September, 2007
By Nicholas Summerton
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
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Covers individual medical care, public health and the relationship between religion and medicine in Roman Britain. This book examines the archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence for health care in Roman Britain, set in the context of the Roman Empire.

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