The Caledonian Mercury - Scottish politics, news, history, stories and intelligent analysis from Scotland Resurrecting Edinburgh’s plague doctor – leeches and all
By Johnny Campbell, general manager of the Edinburgh Dungeon Boy am I thankful for modern healthcare – for things we take for granted, like doctors who tend not to kill their patients. Poor old James V would have had no such luck back in 1542, when he got a nasty case of the runs, which
