Following the huge success of Smelly Old History, Smelly Science is a new series that uses your sense of smell to make sense of science! Your most primitive sense makes finding out about the world around you fun. Four scratch and sniff panels in each book combine with expert text and hilarious, but accurate, illustrations, to bring to your nostrils the joys of our breathtaking bodies, aromatic animals, pungent plants, and messy medicine. Glossary and index in each book. Messy Medicine. Festering flesh and pills for all ills? There's more to messy medicine here, with all the ways we cope with ghastly germs and deadly diseases, from juicy jabs to oozing operations - and some more aromatic alternatives.

Messy Medicine (Smelly Science)

Dobson, Mary J.

Oxford University Press

This book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in early modern England. Using a wide range of sources for the southeast of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries of time. She explores the epidemiological causes and consequences of these mortality variations, and offers the reader a fascinating insight into the way patients and practitioners perceived, understood and reacted to the multitude of fevers, poxes and plagues in past times.

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 29)

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

This book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in early modern England. Using a wide range of sources for the southeast of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries of time. She explores the epidemiological causes and consequences of these mortality variations, and offers the reader a fascinating insight into the way patients and practitioners perceived, understood and reacted to the multitude of fevers, poxes and plagues in past times.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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Messy Medicine (Smelly Science)

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 29)

Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 29)