Dead Ends!

Explore medicine's bizarre failures that led to groundbreaking discoveries.

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160 pages· 1120L

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Embark on a thrilling journey through history's medical mishaps with Lindsey Fitzharris. From bizarre treatments to shocking experiments, discover how failures paved the way for groundbreaking medical advancements. Will these tales of beheadings and bloodletting inspire a new understanding of the human body? Dive into a world where mistakes become stepping stones to success, and learn how embracing failure can lead to triumph. With vivid illustrations and captivating facts, this book invites young readers to marvel at the unexpected paths to discovery.

From the publisher

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine’s most fascinating failures and dead ends. Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! Journey down a snaking road bristling with medicine’s most astonishing “dead ends.” Marvel at the diagnoses, experiments, and treatments that were frequently useless, and often harmful, but that sometimes led doctors to discoveries that changed the world for the better. Enjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body-from brain, to heart, to limbs-during which New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris and caricaturist Adrian Teal will guide you through centuries of medical mistakes, festooned with riveting facts, pitch-perfect humor, and vivid illustrations. Celebrate the flukes, flops, and failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies and ways to treat them. This fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!

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