After reading Schmookaria’s review, I ran right over to Amazon and picked this up.  And I enjoyed every minute of it! This is the story of Dr. Thomas Mütter and the birth of modern medicine in America.  I’ll just steal this part from Amazon’s summary because I like how they put it so succinctly: Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and […]