Measly Medicine

This is a romp through the history of healthcare, hosted by the inimitable Dr Grimgrave. It includes chapters on ancient medicine — Stone Age trepanning, Chinese medicine, Romans, Greeks: the dodgy diagnostics of the Middle Ages; the bloody operations before anaesthetics and hygiene were implemented; Florence Nightingale's nursing revolution and development of public; health; Life-saving surgery available today, including plastic surgery and transplants; and modern miracles — new drugs and treatment.

• Author
• Nick Arnold

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 128

• Series
• Horrible Science

• Publisher
• Scholastic UK

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-439-95581-2

• EAN
• 9780439955812

• Genres
• science, childrens

• Release date
• 2006