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Being sick is horrible. But it used to be worse. Inside this book, you'll see evidence of the plagues of the past—rotting skin, dissolving lungs, and sinister swelling all over the body. Diseases like the Black Death wiped out whole towns and villages. Tuberculosis consumed young people like a bloodsucking vampire. And Smallpox left its victims scarred for life—if they survived. At the time, no one knew where these killer diseases came from or how to treat them. But eventually doctors discovered how these diseases and others were spread. Being sick isn't quite as sickening as it was in the past!

ISBN-13: 9781512430752

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

Publication Date: 01-01-2017

Pages: 32

Product Dimensions: 6.30(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.20(d)

Age Range: 9 - 11 Years

Series: Sickening History of Medicine

John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and the author of a huge number of books for adults and children on science, history, technology and nature, including such international best-sellers as Do Not Open and Do You Think You're Clever? Venitia Dean is a freelance illustrator who grew up in Brighton, UK. She has always loved drawing, ever since she could hold a pencil! As a teenager, she discovered a passion for figurative illustration, and then when she turned nineteen she was given a digital drawing tablet for her birthday and started transferring her work to the computer. She hasn't looked back since! As well as illustration, Venitia loves reading graphic novels and walking her dog, Peanut.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

The Oldest Killer 8

Deadly Blisters 10

The Black Death 12

The Great Plague 14

The White Plague 16

The Pox 18

Napoleon's Nightmare 20

Cholera 22

Yellow Fever 24

Spanish Flu 26

Terrible Times 28

Gruesome Symptoms 30

Glossary 31

Index 32