Leeches, Pee, and a Hole in the Head

Feeling a bit under the weather? Got a headache or a pain in your back? You might change your mind once you read about these disgusting, horrible and downright scary cures and treatments from times gone by!

Ever since humans have existed, they have suffered injuries or sickness and wanted to get healthy again, fast. However, before modern medicine existed, there were some wild treatments used around the globe, with very varied rates of success!
 
See how medicine has evolved over time: find out about each outrageous “cure”, the history behind it, the scientists responsible for the idea and, in some cases, how it has influenced medical practices still carried out today... eek!
 
Learn how ancientRomans treated toothache with mouse dung, why human fat was used as an ointment in renaissance Europe, or why cultures across the world drilled holes in patients’ heads.
 
This book’s laugh-out-loud cartoons and unbelievable facts will entertain anyone with a love of all things YUCKY! Tackle history and science from an unusually GROSS angle, and learn about horrid cures and treatments from ancient Egypt, Rome, Medieval England, the Americas and beyond.