Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
11132
Points per Word
0.00018
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.041667
Series
Medieval Realms
Description
Issues of health and disease in the Middle Ages are discussed, as well as the medical knowledge inherited from the ancient world, medicine and treatments, famine and death, leprosy and plague, and the development of medical schools and hospitals.