Quacks and con artists the dubious history of doctors / John Farndon ; illustrated by Venitia Dean.
| Author/creator | Farndon, John |
| Other author | Dean, Venitia, 1976- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Minneapolis : Hungry Tomato, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. [2017] |
| Description | 1 online resource. illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The sickening history of medicine |
| Contents | Cutting and drilling -- Old doctors -- Bad moods -- Body butchers -- Leeches and bloodletting -- Barbers and quacks -- New blood -- Sick hospitals -- Taking the pustule -- Can't feel a thing -- Medical times -- Doctors make me sick! |
| Scope and content | "Modern doctors spend years studying science and the human body. But doctors in the past didn't have the same understanding we have today. Read this book to learn all about the history of doctors and their medical knowledge"--Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Farndon, John, author. Quacks and con artists Minneapolis : Hungry Tomato, [2017] 9781512415605 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016026275 |
| ISBN | 9781512427127 (eb pdf) |