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489952
Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 10/12/2021

BTSB #: 489952 Available

Dewey: 973.8/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.6 MG Lexile: 1020

Subjects: Garfield, James A.|q(James Abram),|d1831-1881 - Assassination Presidents - Biography Presidents - United States - History Medicine - History|y19th century


Summary: Blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination and ultimately horrible death of President James Garfield the 20th President of the United States.


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489953
American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 09/27/2022

BTSB #: 489953 Available

Dewey: 616.9/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.2 MG Lexile: 1080 F&P: Z

Subjects: Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y19th century Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y20th century Public health - Southern States - History|y19th century Public health - Southern States - History|y20th century


Summary: Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better.


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Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 10/13/2020

BTSB #: 489954 Available

Dewey: 610/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.8 MG+ Lexile: 1030 F&P: Z+

Subjects: Medicine - History|y19th century Wounds and injuries Diseases United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War


Summary: Explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts.


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489991
White House Secrets: Medical Lies And Cover-Ups [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Publication Date: 09/23/2025

BTSB #: 489991 Temp OS

Dewey: 973.09/NAges: 10-17   


Summary: Too often when a president is sick or dying, he and the people around him have hidden his condition from the public, wanting to project an image of strength and power. Gail Jarrow explores the shocking, yet true, stories of presidential medical cover-ups from the 19th through the 21st centuries.


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