Hachette India

Medical Milestones and Crazy Cures

Chris van Tulleken

Think you know your Smallpox from your Bubonic Plague? Try testing your knowledge of the history of medicine!

a) What did the Ancient Egyptians treat with powdered ostrich egg?
b) How did body snatchers help 19th-century medical students?
c) Why did the Ancient Romans recommend drinking wee?

ANSWERS: Dive in and find out!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand draw back the bed curtains of history to take you on a tour of the body, revealing the gruesome secrets of medicine through the ages.

Classification : Sciences
Pub Date : SEP 4, 2014
Imprint : Little, Brown
Page Extent : 224
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781405529815
Price : INR 499

Chris van Tulleken

Dr Chris and Xand van Tullekan grew up in London and trained in medicine at Oxford University graduating in 2002.

They have combined NHS work with global health work and television appearing in Blizzard: Race to the Pole Medicine Men and Medicine Men Go Wild. Operation Ouch! is their first series for children.