Leeches, Wee and a Hole in the Head Gruesome medicine and terrible treatments from the past
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Clive Gifford has travelled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colours of History (QED). Clive lives in Manchester, UK.
Anne Wilson has an MA in illustration from Central St Martins College of Art, London and has been an illustrator for over 15 years. Much of her work is inspired by everyday life, pattern, colour and shape. Born on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, Anne now lives in the much less remote town of Reading, England.
Feeling a bit under the weather? Got a headache or a pain in your back? You might change your mind once you read about these disgusting, horrible and downright scary cures and treatments from times gone by!
Ever since humans have existed, they have suffered injuries or sickness and wanted to get healthy again, fast. However, before modern medicine existed, there were some wild treatments used around the globe, with very varied rates of success!
See how medicine has evolved over time: find out about each outrageous "cure", the history behind it, the scientists responsible for the idea and, in some cases, how it has influenced medical practices still carried out today... eek!
Learn how ancient Romans treated toothache with mouse dung, why human fat was used as an ointment in renaissance Europe, or why cultures across the world drilled holes in patients' heads.
This book's laugh-out-loud cartoons and unbelievable facts will entertain anyone with a love of all things YUCKY! Tackle history and science from an unusually GROSS angle, and learn about horrid cures and treatments from ancient Egypt, Rome, Medieval England, the Americas and beyond.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Clive Gifford has travelled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colours of History (QED). Clive lives in Manchester, UK.
Anne Wilson has an MA in illustration from Central St Martins College of Art, London and has been an illustrator for over 15 years. Much of her work is inspired by everyday life, pattern, colour and shape. Born on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, Anne now lives in the much less remote town of Reading, England.