A new book about doctors, healers, caregivers, and gravediggers in 17th, 18th, and 19th-century Quebec City offers tourists a unique way to visit the cities. Historian and author Marie-Ève Ouellet’s book, Docteurs, guérisseurs et fossoyeurs, la médecine à Québec du XVIIe au XIXe siècle is organized like a tourist guide.
The book, available in French only, provides a route to follow, starting at the Augustines Museum about the founders of Quebec City’s first hospital and ending at a street corner which was once the site of the old Picotés cemetery.
There are ten stops along the route. At each one, the author describes an aspect of how medicine was practiced during a particular era.
This is the third book produced by Les Services historiques Six-Associés that provides interesting and unusual ways to tour the provincial capital. The first two books are about “crime and punishment” and “debauchery and drunkenness.”
You can read more about this book in the Québec Hebdo newspaper.
