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Dead ends! : flukes, flops & failures that sparked medical marvels
Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books (2025)

Dewey: 610
Classification: Nonfiction
Physical Description: 150 p., ill. (some col.), 24 cm

BTSB No: 339533

ISBN: 9781547615025

Ages: 8-12

Grades: 3-7

Subjects:
Medical practice -- History
Medicine -- History

Price: $14.99

Summary:
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.

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Teal, Adrian

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