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Weird medical inventions / Joan Stoltman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wild and wacky inventionsPublisher: New York : Gareth Stevens Publishing, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538220832
  • 1538220830
  • 9781538220856
  • 1538220857
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A strange history -- Behind the medicine -- Let 'em bleed -- The purge "cure" -- Keeping clean -- Better eyes are easy! -- Shocking medicine -- Magnetic medicine -- Saving babies -- Radium: the cure-all -- How can they sell it?
Summary: Most people probably don't expect to see too many odd inventions at a hospital or doctor's office. However, over the years there have been quite a few offbeat medical products. Readers of this book will learn how and why these creations were invented and why many of them didn't take off. Vibrant photographs aid in the understanding of these wacky inventions, while sidebars and fact boxes add even more factual and high-interest content that will appeal to readers of many abilities, especially those with creative and imaginative minds.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 610.284 S876 Available 33111009341617
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 610.284 S876 Available 33111009325362
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Most people probably don't expect to see too many odd inventions at a hospital or doctor's office. However, over the years there have been quite a few offbeat medical products. Readers of this book will learn how and why these creations were invented and why many of them didn't take off. Vibrant photographs aid in the understanding of these wacky inventions, while sidebars and fact boxes add even more factual and high-interest content that will appeal to readers of many abilities, especially those with creative and imaginative minds.

Most people probably don't expect to see too many odd inventions at a hospital or doctor's office. However, over the years there have been quite a few offbeat medical products. Readers of this book will learn how and why these creations were invented and why many of them didn't take off. Vibrant photographs aid in the understanding of these wacky inventions, while sidebars and fact boxes add even more factual and high-interest content that will appeal to readers of many abilities, especially those with creative and imaginative minds.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A strange history -- Behind the medicine -- Let 'em bleed -- The purge "cure" -- Keeping clean -- Better eyes are easy! -- Shocking medicine -- Magnetic medicine -- Saving babies -- Radium: the cure-all -- How can they sell it?

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