From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about medicine's most fascinating failures and dead ends.

Beheadings! Bloodletting! Bodysnatching! 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.

Enjoy a whirlwind tour of the human body—from brain, to heart, to limbs—during which New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris and caricaturist Adrian Teal will guide you through centuries of medical mistakes, festooned with riveting facts, pitch-perfect humor, and vivid illustrations. Celebrate the flukes, flops, and failures that have given science a better understanding of our bodies and ways to treat them.

This fascinating book of foul-ups is sure to delight young readers, and inspire them to embrace their failures, too!

"* Plague-Busters! is chock full of awesomely appalling medical history that is sure to delight audiences, and possibly even spark interest for some future pathologists." - Shelf Awareness, starred review, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS!

"* Engaging, informative, but also gross." - SLJ Reviews, starred review, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS!

"Fans of Albee's Poison will feel right at home with this darkly comedic piece of nonfiction." - The Horn Book, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS!

"A lively illustration of the perils of illness in the olden days." - Kirkus Reviews, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS!

"An entertaining, accessible, and satisfyingly disgusting history of six diseases . . . an equally worthy choice for researchers and browsing pathologists." - Booklist, on PLAGUE-BUSTERS!

"* Meticulously researched and compulsively readable." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), on THE FACEMAKER

"* An excellent biography of a genuine miracle worker." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review), on THE FACEMAKER

"This book is riveting. It is gruesome but it is also uplifting . . . What a triumph." - Mary Roach, author of FUZZ and STIFF, on THE FACEMAKER

"Atmospheric . . . The story it tells is one of abiding fascination." - Jennifer Senior, The New York Times, on THE BUTCHERING ART