Measly Medicine
Author: Nick Arnold
Illustrator: Tony De Saulles
Book 24 in the Horrible Science series
Pages: 144
Published: 2006
Age: 8+
This is a romp through the history of healthcare, hosted by the inimitable Dr Grimgrave. It includes chapters on ancient medicine - Stone Age trepanning, Chinese medicine, Romans, Greeks: the dodgy diagnostics of the Middle Ages; the bloody operations before anaesthetics and hygiene were implemented; Florence Nightingale's nursing revolution and development of public; health; Life-saving surgery available today, including plastic surgery and transplants; and modern miracles - new drugs and treatment.
About the Horrible Science Series
Books in series order
- 1.Blood, Bones and Body Bits(1996)
- 2.Ugly Bugs(1996)
- 3.Chemical Chaos(1997)
- 4.Fatal Forces(1997)
- 5.Nasty Nature(1997)
- 6.Disgusting Digestion(1998)
- 7.Sounds Dreadful(1998)
- 8.Vicious Veg(1998)
- 9.Bulging Brains(1999)
- 10.Evolve or Die(1999)
- 11.Frightening Light(1999)
- 12.Deadly Diseases(2000)
- 13.Shocking Electricity(2000)
- 14.Killer Energy(2001)
- 15.Suffering Scientists(2001)
- 16.Microscopic Monsters(2001)
- 17.Body Owner's Handbook(2002)
- 18.Terrible Time(2002)
- 19.Space, Stars and Slimy Aliens(2003)
- 20.Really Rotten Experiments(2004)
- 21.Frightful Flight(2004)
- 22.Painful Poison(2004)
- 23.Angry Animals(2005)
- 24.Measly Medicine(2006)
- 25.Evil Inventions(2007)
- 26.Sick! From Measley Medicine To Savage Surgery(2009)
- 27.Wasted World(2009)
- 28.House of Horrors(2012)
- +How to Draw Horrible Science(2010)
- +The Horrible Science of Everything(2008)
Reading age: 8+ years
Welcome to the explosive world of Horrible Science! It's science with the squishy bits left in.
Most people think that science is serious. Seriously dreary, seriously brain-dead and seriously boring. But most people are wrong. Science isn't boring - it's horrible! And when science is horrible it comes to life in an exciting way . . .