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129 x 198 x 10mm
Medieval soldiers used spiders' webs to stop their wounds bleeding. Rich people in the 1600s enjoyed going to the anatomy theatre to watch doctors cut up human corpses. Some Victorian surgeons didn't bother to wash their bloodstained aprons - or even their hands - before an operation.
By 2005, scientists aim to find the complete human blueprint - the 3 billion chunks of information contained in our genes.
Read on for a feast of weird and wonderful facts about medicine!
