You wouldn't want to be sick in the 16th century : diseases you'd rather not catch

by Senior, Kathryn.

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Call number: J 614.4 Se

Available Copies: Downtown Youth, Pittsfield Youth

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Location	Call Number	Branch	Item Status
Downtown Youth	J 614.4 Se	Downtown	Available
Pittsfield Youth	J 614.4 Se	Pittsfield	Available
Traverwood Youth	J 614.4 Se	Traverwood	Due 06-19-13

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"A Franklin Watts library edition."

Includes index.

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.

A humorous look at the state of illness and medicine in Tudor England.

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submitted by karenkay on July 15, 2011, 7:31 pm

This series of books is an easy way to get history across to kids. Easy, interesting and fun to read. I enjoyed reading them as well. They don't shy away from telling the truth about some awful things that happened in the past, so you may not want to read them to young children.

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