Title Health and medicine / Saviour Pirotta ; [Illustrator: Adam Hook].

Publication Info.	North Mankato, Minn. : Smart Apple Media, [2004]
	©2004

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department	J940.1 PIROTTA	Check Shelf

Description	32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Series	Medieval world
	Medieval world.
Note	Originally published in the UK by Franklin Watts.
	Includes index.
Contents	Before the Middle Ages -- Sickness and disease -- Physicians, surgeons, and healers -- Four humors -- Having surgery -- Going to the dentist -- Medical textbooks -- Monasteries and hospitals -- Women in medieval medicine -- Use of herbal medicines -- Healing pilgrimage -- Black death -- Towards the 16th century -- Timeline -- Glossary and further information -- Index.
Summary	Explores how illness and disease was treated in medieval time and peoples' attitudes toward health. Health and Medicine explores people's attitudes toward health and how they treated illness and disease in medieval times. It describes what it was like to have surgery or to go to the dentist, and the role that women played in medicine. It also looks at the different medical theories and developments of the period.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.3 1.0 81370.
Subject	Medicine, Medieval.
	Women -- Health and hygiene -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
	Medicine, Medieval -- History.
	Health -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
	Medical care -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
	Knights and knighthood.
	Middle Ages -- Juvenile literature.
	Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
	Middle Ages.
Added Author	Hook, Adam, illustrator.
Added Title	Health & medicine
ISBN	1583405739
Standard No.	9781583405734 90000

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