A romp through the history of healthcare, this title includes chapters on ancient medicine - Stone Age trepanning, Chinese medicine, Romans, Greeks. It covers such topics as the dodgy diagnostics of the Middle Ages; the bloody operations before anaesthetics and hygiene were implemented; Florence Nightingale's nursing revolution and more.

Readers will be fascinated to find out which scary surgeon stole a giant's dead body and what Egyptians did with tortoise brains. With a fantastic new cover look and extra horrible bits at the back of the book, this best-selling title is sure to be a huge hit with a new generation of Horrible Science readers.

1999. Gift of Dr. George R. Wilkinson, Jr. (from the collection of Dr. White).

Describes how the body fights illness and infection and sometimes needs the help of medicines to be cured. Includes information on how some drugs were developed, how pharmaceutical companies research and improve new drugs, and how advanced technologies such as genetic engineering can be used to create plants and animals that can be farmed for medicines.