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Plague-busters! : medicine's battles with history's deadliest diseases
—Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.
2023

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Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humour with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781547606030
  • 1547606037

Description: 150 pages : illustrations (colour, black and white) ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Plague, or the Black Death
  • Smallpox, or the speckled monster
  • Rabies, or hydrophobia
  • Tuberculosis, or consumption
  • Scurvy, or the plague of the sea
  • Afterword: a "Nobel" pursuit.

LCCN: 2022059202

Control Number: 3278637

Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2023.
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