Kay's Marvellous Medicine

A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body

By: Adam Kay

Narrated by: Adam Kay, Jan Ravens, Dan Tetsell

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Brought to you by Puffin.

The brand-new, hilarious book from best-selling, record-breaking author Adam Kay. 

The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off, but there was one tiny little problem back then...doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked. 

It's time to find out why Ancient Egyptians thought the brain was just a useless load of old stuffing that might as well be chucked in the bin, why teachers forced their pupils to smoke cigarettes, why hairdressers would cut off their customers' legs and why people used to get paid for farting. (Unfortunately that's no longer a thing - sorry.) 

You'll get answers to questions like:

• Why did patients gargle with wee?
• How did a doctor save people's lives using a washing machine, a can of beans and some old sausages?
• What was the great stink? (No, it's not what doctors call your bum.)

If you're sure you're ready, then pop a peg on your nose (there was a lot of stinky pus back then), pull on your wellies (there was a lot of poo there, too), wash your hands (because they certainly didn't) and explore this gross and gruesome history of the human body!

©2021 Adam Kay (P)2021 Penguin Audio

performance boooooo

performance was worse than kays anatomy ( please edit some ) anything than that, awsome!