Ground-up mummy bones, leeches sucking human blood, and a breakfast of dried mouse paste. It sounds like a horror movie, but those were actual medicines prescribed by early doctors. Medical students studied anatomy on bodies stolen from graves and had to operate on people while they were awake. Learn about the medicines that came from poison and doctors who experimented on themselves and their families. It's a twisted tale of medical mayhem, but it's all true!
Ages 9-12
Ancient Days Disease and Death Caveman Cures Pharaohs Fix Eat Your Dirt
Try Tobacco On Pins and Needles The Legend of the Honey Mummy Medical
Practice: Heart Pump Medical Practice: Check Your Pupils Medieval Maladies
Black Death Pox on You! Bleeding to Health? Barber-Surgeons Nitpicking St.
Anthonys Fire Sweating Sickness A Royal Pain in the Rear Medical Practice:
Make Fake Snot Medical Practice: Breeding Bacteria Modern Marvels Father of
Anatomy The Body Snatchers Mini Monsters Soap Saves Moldy Cure Pandemic Salk
to the Rescue Very Bad Medicine The Strange Case of Phineas Gage Medical
Practice: Fever Fighter Medical Practice: Make Your Own Scab Bibliography
About the Author
Stephanie Bearce is a writer, teacher, and science nerd. She likes teaching kids how to blow up toothpaste and dissect worms. She also loves collecting rocks and keeps a huge collection of fossilized bones in her basement. When she is not exploding experiments in her kitchen or researching strange science facts in the library, Stephanie likes to explore catacombs and museums with her husband, Darrell.
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