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Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts

Name: Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts
ISBN: 9780241777558

From leeches to robot surgeons, discover the strange secrets behind medicine’s astonishing transformation.

grisly · fascinating · informative · lively

Genres

Non-fiction History Health/Lifestyle

What is Blood, Guts, and Nasty Cuts about?

Take a gruesome journey through the history of medicine, from ancient remedies and medieval maladies to wartime treatments and modern robot surgery. Discover why doctors once used leeches, how people tried to cure the plague, and which strange experiments unexpectedly worked. Meet bold surgeons, clever herbalists and brave patients as you explore blood, boils, bandages and groundbreaking discoveries. Packed with fascinating facts about the human body and medical science, this lively book reveals how treatments have changed over thousands of years.

Pages

80 pages

Reading age

Junior (8-13)

This edition

2026

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