As her practice expanded, her notoriety swelled, and Restell established her-self as a prime target for tabloids, threats, and lawsuits galore. “This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: self-made millionaire, a celebrity in her era, a woman beloved by her patients and despised by the men who wanted to control them.”Īn industrious immigrant who built her business from the ground up, Madame Restell was a self-taught surgeon on the cutting edge of healthcare in pre-Gilded Age New York, and her bustling “boarding house” provided birth control, abortions, and medical assistance to thousands of women-rich and poor alike. **A Bookshop.Org EDITOR'S PICK (March 2023)** With her signature mix of in-depth research and storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history’s most gripping and deadly outbreaks, and ultimately looks at the surprising ways they’ve shaped history and humanity for almost as long as anyone can remember.**An Amazon EDITOR'S PICK for BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH (March 2023)** Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues we’ve suffered as a species, as well as stories of the heroic figures who selflessly fought to ease the suffering of their fellow man. Some of their responses to those outbreaks are almost too strange to believe in hindsight. Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. And in turn-of-the-century New York, an Irish cook caused two lethal outbreaks of typhoid fever, a case that transformed her into the notorious Typhoid Mary. In late-seventeenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome-a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues-from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio-and a celebration of the heroes who fought them

Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright