The Queene's Cure
- ISBN-10
- 0440235952
- ISBN-13
- 9780440235958
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dell
- Author
- Karen Harper
Description
Young Queen Elizabeth I battles the medical establishment, the Royal College of Physicians, as she seeks to reform many of their dangerous practices, only to come face to face with an enemy who will use terror and pestilence to bring down the throne of England. Reprint.
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