Illustrated by Roland Harvey
As Mabel's mysterious package leads her through the hilarious, amazing, disgusting but true history of medicine, she is drawn into incredible stories of chance and tragedy . . .
Like Al, shot in the guts and never healed, so the world watched his food digest . . . Like the barber who poured boiling oil on his patients and what happened when he ran out . . . Like the parents who stuffed smallpox scabs up their kids' noses and the GP who deliberately gave a kid a killer disease . . .
You'll hear about how a doctor's snot helped heal millions, how big breasts inspired a brainwave, and how Iggy was laughed out of town for suggesting hand washing in hospitals . . . and many more!
