Dead ends! : flukes, flops & failures that sparked medical marvels /

"Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine's most astonishing "dead ends." Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- (Author), Teal, Adrian (Author, Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2025.
Subjects:	Medical errors > History > Juvenile literature. Medicine > History > Juvenile literature. Medical errors > History. Medicine > History. Medical misconceptions > History. History of Medicine Erreurs médicales > Histoire > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. Médecine > Histoire > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse. Erreurs médicales > Histoire. Médecine > Histoire. history of medicine. JUVENILE NONFICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries. Informational works. Documents d'information.

Table of Contents:

Head-shakers
Racking your brains
Life and limb
Bleeding hearts
Bad blood
No guts, no glory
Last gasps.