The history of medicine is a vast subject, encompassing the whole of humanity in every region of the globe. For millennia, our ancestors have sought to combat disease, relieve pain and postpone the Grim Reaper’s inevitable victory, doing so with a fortitude and humour that makes their experiences resonate with us today.

In this book packed full of facts from medicine’s long and often shocking past, Caroline Rance gives concise introductions to some of the more well-known (and not-so-well-known) episodes, dispelling a few myths and celebrating a few neglected figures along the way.

• The latest addition to

  Amberley's new and exciting '100 Facts' series

• Pocket-sized, easy-to-read

  format

• Author has over 2,000

  followers on Twitter, over 1,000 likes on Facebook and runs popular blog 'The

  Quack Doctor'

• 'Her research is thorough

  and her sense of period excellent' - Historical Novel Society

• The history of medicine is

  part of the GCSE History curriculum - appeal to schools