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Tiny killers / by John Farndon ; illustrated by Venitia Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farndon, John, author.
- Series:
- Farndon, John. Sickening history of medicine series.
- The sickening history of medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases--Causes and theories of causation--Juvenile literature.
- Diseases.
- Germ theory of disease--Juvenile literature.
- Germ theory of disease.
- Medicine--History--Juvenile literature.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Hungry Tomato, [2017]
- Summary:
- "From early ideas about what made people sick to modern understanding of the tiny but powerful bacteria all around us, read this book to learn all about the history of the science of what makes us sick."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Settling for germs
- Bad air
- Eastern ideas
- Invisible animals
- Now wash your hands
- Dirty drains
- Guilty germs
- Germs nailed
- Clean surgery
- Germ army
- Germy times
- Gruesome symptoms.
- Notes:
- "Original edition copyright 2016 by Hungry Tomato Ltd."--Preliminary page.
- "When bacteria and viruses attack"--Cover.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5124-2710-1
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