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You wouldn't want to be sick in the 16th century : diseases you'd rather not catch / written by Kathryn Senior ; illustrated by David Antram ; created and designed by David Salariya.

Author/creator Senior, Kathryn
Other author/creatorAntram, David, 1958-
Other author/creatorSalariya, David.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Franklin Watts, ©2002.
Description32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction -- Tough start -- Padua-center of learning -- Blood, glorious blood! -- When humor wasn't funny -- Battlefield horrors -- Plagued by infections -- Hospital surgery -- Quacks and witches -- Herbs and the apothecary -- Barbaric births -- At war again-the Armada -- End of an era.
Abstract A humorous look at the state of illness and medicine in Tudor England.
General note"A Franklin Watts library edition."
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2001045596
ISBN0531146057
ISBN0531163660 (pbk.)

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