From Leeches to Lasers: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the History of Medicine (and Some Things You Didn't!) by Dr Alanna Skuse #literature frightening

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From Leeches to Lasers: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the History of Medicine (and Some Things You Didn't!) by Dr Alanna Skuse #literature frighteningWant to know why Victorian doctors never washed their clothes? Who to call for a bad case of medieval bewitchment? Or how to cure the plague by staring at a toad? From Leeches to Lasers is a whistle stop tour of the grisly, glorious, and ingeniously inventive history of medicine, all the way from the ancient world right up to the twenty first century. Immerse yourself in blood, boils, and bandages as you uncover how to treat tumours, battle bacterial