A Sick History of Medicine: A Warts-and-All Book Full of Fun Facts and Disgusting Discoveries

di Jelena Poleksic (Autore)

Neon Squid (Autore)

Ella Kasperowicz (Illustratore)

Priddy Books, 2025

WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED. This revolting history of medicine through the ages by Jelena Poleksic is full of blood, guts, and gore! 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 smelling a stinky cesspit. 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. The vile sequel to the equally revolting A Stinky History of Toilets!

• Autore: Jelena Poleksic, Neon Squid
• Illustratore: Ella Kasperowicz
• Editore: Priddy Books
• Collana: Wacky Histories
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 48 p.
• Dimensioni: 290 x 236 mm
• Peso: 510 gr.
• EAN: 9781916745018

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