Notes

a magnificently illustrated history
Briony Hudson, Nick Taylor
80 pages
colour illustrations
On cover: From mummies to MRI scans, plagues to prosthetics Contents include: How are you feeling? -- Seeing inside the body -- Miraculous medicines -- Staying safe -- Plagues, pandemics, viruses and vaccines -- Health practitioners -- Medicine and war -- Extreme medicine - Medicine for life
Summary: Disease, injury and death are part of being human. but how did people tackle them in the past? What can we discover from ancient texts and artefacts that might help us understand medicine today? Explore the history of medicine, find out who Hippocrates was, how penicillin was invented and what the future holds for medicine