Grisly Medicine: The Weird and Wonderful Story

by John Farndon, Venetia Dean (Illustrator)

Overview

From the amazing to the ridiculous, get ready to uncover the biggest breakthroughs and blunders in medical history. Includes some lucky guesswork, toe-curling treatments, fascinating breakthroughs, potions & pills and revolting stories. Discover..

• the germs behind some of history’s nastiest illnesses – from cholera to COVID-19
• how alligator blood could help fight infections
• the barbers that would cut off more than just your hair
• Gross treatments, including leeches, pee and wine made from snakes

Includes some lucky guesswork, toe-curling treatments, fascinating breakthroughs and revolting stories. It’s a spectacular, mind-boggling read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913440503
Publisher:	Beetle Books
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

John is Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and the author of a huge number of books for adults and children on science, technology and nature, including such international best-sellers as Do Not Open and Do You Think You're Clever? He has been shortlisted four times for the Royal Society's Young People's Book Prize for a science book, with titles such as How the Earth Works and What Happens When? He has recently been creating science stories for children for the Moscow Polytech science festival Venetia grew up in Brighton, UK. She has loved drawing ever since she could hold a pencil. After receiving a digital drawing tablet for her 19th birthday she has transferred to working digitally. She hasn't looked back since!

Table of Contents

Grisly Medicine 8

Science vs invisible enemies

Settling for Germs 10

Eastern Ideas 12

Invisible Animals 14

Now Wash Your Hands 16

Dirty Drains 18

Guilty Germs 20

Germs Nailed 22

Clean Surgery 24

Germ Army 26

The World's Killer Diseases

The Oldest Killer 28

Deadly Blisters 30

The Black Death 32

The Great Plague 34

The White Plague 36

The Pox 38

Napoleon's Nightmare 40

Cholera 42

Yellow Fever 44

Spanish Flu 46

Strange and Scary Treatments

Bad Moods 48

Body Butchers - The Anatomists 50

Cutting and Drilling 52

Old Doctors 54

Leeches and Bloodletting 56

Barbers and Quacks 58

New Blood 60

Sick Hospitals 62

Germs for Good 64

Can't Feel a Thing 66

Weird and Wonderful Medicine

Ancient Medicine 68

Chinese Roots 70

It's Chemistry 72

Green Medicine 74

Willow Power 76

Finding a Magic Bullet 78

Mouldy but Deadly 80

Sugar in the Blood 82

Natural Killer 84

Grisly Facts 86

Glossary 90

Index 92