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