Ambushed! : the assassination plot against President Garfield [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Dewey: 973.8/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.6 MG Lexile: 1020

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Subjects: Garfield, James A.|q(James Abram),|d1831-1881 - Assassination Presidents - Biography Presidents - United States - History Medicine - History|y19th century

Summary: Blends science, history, and medical mysteries to tell the story of the assassination and ultimately horrible death of President James Garfield the 20th President of the United States.

American murderer : the parasite that haunted the South [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Dewey: 616.9/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 8.2 MG Lexile: 1080 F&P: Z

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Subjects: Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y19th century Hookworm disease - Southern States - Prevention - History|y20th century Public health - Southern States - History|y19th century Public health - Southern States - History|y20th century

Summary: Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better.

Blood and germs : the Civil War battle against wounds and disease [Medical Fiascoes]by Jarrow, Gail 

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Dewey: 610/NAges: 10-14   
AR: 7.8 MG+ Lexile: 1030 F&P: Z+

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Subjects: Medicine - History|y19th century Wounds and injuries Diseases United States - History|y1861-1865, Civil War

Summary: Explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts.