Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels - Lindsey Fitzharris

\nFrom New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends. \n \nBeheadings! 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. \n \nEnjoy 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. Enjoy the flukes, flops, and failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies and ways to treat them. \n \nThis fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!\n \n \nFrom New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends. \n \nBeheadings! 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. \n \nEnjoy 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. \n \nThis fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!\n