This astonishing new book illustrates how death and incurable disease were considered a common part of medieval life. Young readers will be fascinated by the history of the Black Death, or the Plague, which killed millions of people in Europe, and why medical treatments in the Middle Ages were often worse than the disease. Topics include
- a timeline of medical changes through the Middle Ages
- common medieval diseases and their causes, such as smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and leprosy
- operations and treatments such as bloodletting, and cauterizing
- medicine makers such as apothecaries and housewives
- women's place in medicine
