You wouldn't want to live without antibiotics!
(2015)
By:
Rooney, Anne
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
J/615.792/ROONEY,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2015
DESCRIPTION
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780531212189 (library binding : alk. paper), 0531212181 (library binding : alk. paper), 9780531213094 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0531213099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Includes index
Your body is a battlefield -- Which would you choose: maggots or moss? -- Don't worry about the mold-- it's good for you! -- Do you want sugar with that wound? -- Now wash your hand -- Can you spot the enemy? -- Are we there yet? -- Fleming and his moldy plates -- What's going on? -- Antibiotics everywhere -- Too many, too fast -- So, would you want to live without antibiotics?
Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe how antibiotics were developed and what methods were used to fight infections and disease before antibiotics were available
Ages 8 and up
910L