Medicine

From potions and ointments to space age bionics, plagues to prosthetics, and from ancient mummies to modern MRI scans, this visually extraordinary book presents the history of medicine as it has never been seen before.
With an expert text written by museum curator, pharmacy historian and lecturer, Briony Hudson, and the stunning graphic artwork of Nottingham-based Nick Taylor, Medicine: A Magnificently Illustrated History takes youngsters on a fascinating journey of discovery.
The history of medicine is the history of everybody - and every body - both past and present, and the evolution of medicine has been one full of experiments, trials and breakthroughs. Humankind's battle to stay alive has also been horrifying, bizarre and exhilarating, and there is still a long way to go.
Find out how ancient texts and artefacts help us understand medicine today as we join a mind-boggling and eye-opening exploration of fascinating beliefs, intriguing remedies and scientific discoveries as well as learning about some of medical history's strange accidents and quirky experiments.
So who was Hippocrates, how did rural doctor Edward Jenner from Gloucestershire make the breakthrough in mass vaccination, and how was the life-saving antibiotic penicillin invented by scientist Dr Alexander Fleming at a London hospital?
Uniquely presented through a series of posters, comic-strip retelling, timelines, newspaper articles and much more, Hudson's accessible and engaging facts and Taylor's extraordinarily offbeat and vintage-style illustrations are guaranteed to keep children gripped from first page to last.

-- Pam Norfolk * Lancaster Guardi