Pills and potions
By: by Mary Atkinson.
Series: Shockwave
Publisher: Children's Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine -- History -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: HPWS; title: Get on the wavelength; title: First medicines; title: India and China; title: Ancient Egypt and the Middle East; title: Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; title: Lost information; title: The Renaissance; title: Surgery and anesthetics; title: Lister and germs; title: Preventing diseases; title: Vaccinations and antibiotics; title: Looking inside; title: Aftershocks.