Ingenious pain / Andrew Miller

London : Hodder and Stoughton , 1997. Later Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 337 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; ""A Sceptre book"". Summary; The rise, fall and redemption of an extraordinary man born unable to feel pain. Growing up in the West Country in the mid-18th century, James Dyer grows up to become a brilliant surgeon. En route to St Petersburg he meets a witchlike woman who proves both his nemesis and saviour. Subjects; 18th century. Medicine � History � 18th century. Nervous System Malformations. Physicians � history. Pain. Surgeons. Physicians � Europe � Fiction. Physicians � England � Fiction. English fiction � 20th century. Europe � History � 18th century � Fiction. Historical fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General. Physicians ; Fiction. Genres; Historical fiction. Novels.