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The Mysterious Life of Dr Barry: A Surgeon Unlike Any Other
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The Mysterious Life of Dr Barry: A Surgeon Unlike Any Other

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In July 1865 the celebrated surgeon Dr James Barry died in London after a long and distinguished career in the British Empire. He had lived alone and a charlady took on the task of laying out his body.

Barry was well-known. A fiery red haired man he as a gifted physician and a determined and pugnacious character. He had been surgeon to the forces in British South Africa here he performed the world’s first successful modern Caesarean birth. He had pushed through much needed medical reforms. He had quelled an outbreak of cholera in the West Indies. He had visited the Crimea and argued violently with Florence Nightingale.

A charlady came running from the room; she had startling news. Dr Barry had clearly been born awoman!

And so Margaret Bulkley’s secret as finally revealed. Here is the incredible True Adventures of a young person determined to achieve their aim even if it meant a lifetime of deception

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Country
United Kingdom
Date
30 March 2021
Pages
144
ISBN
9781782692782

In July 1865 the celebrated surgeon Dr James Barry died in London after a long and distinguished career in the British Empire. He had lived alone and a charlady took on the task of laying out his body.

Barry was well-known. A fiery red haired man he as a gifted physician and a determined and pugnacious character. He had been surgeon to the forces in British South Africa here he performed the world’s first successful modern Caesarean birth. He had pushed through much needed medical reforms. He had quelled an outbreak of cholera in the West Indies. He had visited the Crimea and argued violently with Florence Nightingale.

A charlady came running from the room; she had startling news. Dr Barry had clearly been born awoman!

And so Margaret Bulkley’s secret as finally revealed. Here is the incredible True Adventures of a young person determined to achieve their aim even if it meant a lifetime of deception

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Country
United Kingdom
Date
30 March 2021
Pages
144
ISBN
9781782692782