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.
- ISBN13 9780439955812
- Publish Date 1 September 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Scholastic
- Imprint Scholastic Hippo
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English