Are you not feeling well? Are you suffering from a headache or backache? All your problems will disappear in one fell swoop if you become familiar with the horrible, disgusting and sometimes downright terrifying medical procedures used in the past. Find out as much as possible about the interesting things about the human body and the wonderful mind, and about how they tried to remedy physical and mental ailments in different periods and places of history!

This chilling guide to the history of medicine takes you through the amazing medical ideas of different places around the world with funny descriptions and fun illustrations. Flipping through the volume, you can learn how medicine has developed over the millennia and how ideas about health and illness have changed. Whether it's about leeches, urine treatment or skull carving, all the weirdness is revealed in this book!