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Describes disgusting but effective medical treatments that have been used throughout history.

Punch is a young orphan boy, hungry and alone. When he is offered a job with a traveling medicine show, he takes it, although he has no idea what his work will be. But after he joins the troupe and sees the owner's beautiful daughter, Judy, he no longer cares what he has to do, as long as he is near her. Soon the shady medicine show is on the run, just one step ahead of a sheriff who is determined to put them all in jail for peddling their bottles...

A secret formula turns a distinguished doctor into a demonic madman stalking London's streets. This spine-tingling hi/lo adaptation of Stevenson's classic horror story retains all the dramatic impact of the original. |

Chronicles the life of German physician Josef Mengele, focusing on the barbaric experiments he performed on Jews during the Holocaust.

Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.

These animals with various prosthetics are heroes to people with similar challenges.

From rising star Shakirah Bourne, author of Josephine Against the Sea, comes a mysterious adventure that explores one of the most chilling tales in Caribbean mythology: the faceless douen children. Twelve year-old Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmares -- the haunting images of silver butterflies whose flapping wings drive away all sound, leaving only suffocating silence in their wake. Her parents already favor her "perfect"...

In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...

Stories of some of the outstanding doctors and some whose role was less creditable.

Best friends for eleven years, Holly, Savitri, and Holly's twin, Corey, are a unit, freerunning through Chicago as if they were superheroes until a random act of violence takes Corey's life and, as they tell in their separate voices, Holly seeks the murderer and revenge while Sav feels left behind. Incorporates sections of comic-style art.