Invisible microbes cause sickness by setting up home in our bodies and multiplying - fast Follow the hunt for these tiny killers over thousands of years and the fight to outwit and eliminate them.
Smallpox and tuberculosis came from cattle
Cholera made the skin shrivel and turn blue
Hospitals caused fatal diseases
Find out how the French scientist Louis Pasteur unmasked germs living in the air the German doctor Robert Koch proved that they caused disease and the British surgeon Joseph Lister pioneered surgery in super-clean conditions - some of the greatest victories in the battle against disease.
This is Book 2 in the Grisly History of Medicine Series. See all Grisly History of Medicine books here.
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John Farndon is an author of exciting and accessible science books for children. His 'What Happens When?' was short-listed for the Rhone-Poulenc science prize in 1997. He has contributed to numerous science encyclopaedias. His book 'The Complete Book of the Brain' has been short-listed for 2001 Junior Aventis Prizes for Science Books.
More about John Farndon Jane Lacey (Author)
Jane Lacey was a primary school teacher for ten years before she became a full-time writer of non-fiction books for children between the ages of three and eleven.
Venitia Dean (Illustrator)
Venitia Dean is a freelance illustrator who grew up in Brighton. She has always loved drawing,
