Junior Non-fiction
2022

A sick history of medicine

a warts-and-all book full of fun facts and disgusting discoveries

:If you don't like going to the doctor, spare a thought for your ancestors. Got a headache? We can drill into your skull! Need to buy medicine? Can we recommend a dose of ground-up Egyptian mummy? Want to fight off diseases? Try carrying around one of your farts in a jar. It's well-known that to make advances in science you have to make a few mistakes along the way. In this hilarious history book kids will be whisked around the world -- from ancient Rome to imperial China -- to meet the medical innovators who pushed the boundaries of what was possible, with sometimes disastrous effects. They'll learn about the use of leeches, maggot-therapy (as gross as it sounds), dancing plagues, public dissections, grave robbers, electric eel treatments, exploding teeth, and much more! Written by a doctor, everything in this book has been scrupulously researched and readers will learn about the development of some of our greatest inventions, from vaccines to X-rays. Amusing illustrations by Ella Kasperowicz make this a book kids will want to return to again and again.

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Title Statement	A sick history of medicine: a warts-and-all book full of fun facts and disgusting discoveries / written by Jelena Poleksic ; illustrated by Ella Kasperowicz.
Alternative Title(s)	Medicine
Series	Wacky histories
Author	Poleksic, Jelena
Additional Contributors	Kasperowicz, Ella
Publication	New York, NY: St. Martin's Press,2022.©1999
Extent of Item	48 pages
ISBN	9781684494491 (hardcover)
Other Number	pr07674661
General Notes	"Created for St. Martin's Press by Neon Squid"--Copyright page. Includes index.
Summary	:If you don't like going to the doctor, spare a thought for your ancestors. Got a headache? We can drill into your skull! Need to buy medicine? Can we recommend a dose of ground-up Egyptian mummy? Want to fight off diseases? Try carrying around one of your farts in a jar. It's well-known that to make advances in science you have to make a few mistakes along the way. In this hilarious history book kids will be whisked around the world -- from ancient Rome to imperial China -- to meet the medical innovators who pushed the boundaries of what was possible, with sometimes disastrous effects. They'll learn about the use of leeches, maggot-therapy (as gross as it sounds), dancing plagues, public dissections, grave robbers, electric eel treatments, exploding teeth, and much more! Written by a doctor, everything in this book has been scrupulously researched and readers will learn about the development of some of our greatest inventions, from vaccines to X-rays. Amusing illustrations by Ella Kasperowicz make this a book kids will want to return to again and again.
By Topic	Diseases--Juvenile literature
	Human anatomy--Juvenile literature
	Medicine--Juvenile literature--History
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