Think you know your Smallpox from your Bubonic Plague? Try testing your knowledge of the history of medicine!

a) What did the Ancient Egyptians treat with powdered ostrich egg?
b) How did body snatchers help 19th-century medical students?
c) Why did the Ancient Romans recommend drinking wee?

ANSWERS: Dive in and find out!

Dr Chris and Dr Xand draw back the bed curtains of history to take you on a tour of the body, revealing the gruesome secrets of medicine through the ages.

This is book 2 in Operation Ouch .

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Dr Chris and Xand van Tulleken grew up in London and trained in medicine at Oxford University, graduating in 2002.