Physician who tried to heal a nation

From: The Scotsman | Date: August 17, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The Visit of the Royal Physician

by Per Olov Enquist, transl by Tiina Nunnally

Harvill Press, GBP 16.99

Review by Anne MacLeod

LOOK up Danish Revolution on the internet and you'll find football and Bluetooth technology which, you are assured, will soon replace everything important in life, from television controls to credit cards.

Only after considerable delving will you find the almost- bloodless paper revolution engineered by Johann Friedrich Struensee, Royal Physician to Christian VII of Denmark between 1768 and 1772.

Bluetooth is relevant, however. Struensee, a man of the ...

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