Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781547606030)

Smallpox! Rabies! Black Death! Throughout history humankind has been plagued by . . . well, by plagues. The symptoms of these diseases were gruesome-but the remedies were even worse.

Get to know the ickiest illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations through the ages. Each chapter explores the story of a disease, including the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs that it spawned. Medical historian and bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris lays out the facts with her trademark wit, and Adrian Teal adds humor with cartoons and caricatures drawn in pitch black and blood red. Diseases covered in this book include bubonic plague, smallpox, rabies, tuberculosis, cholera, and scurvy.

Thanks to centuries of sickness and a host of history's most determined plague-busters, this riveting book features everything you've ever wanted to know about the world's deadliest diseases.

Author: Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal
ISBN-10: 1547606037
ISBN-13: 9781547606030
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.79d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 76
School Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 90
Shelf Awareness 10/20/2023
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2023 pg. 96