Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.2
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7143
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.025
Series
Routes of Science
Description
This book chronicles the history of medicine from Stone Age surgeries to health care in outer space, describing the practices of the ancient East, ancient Greece and Rome, and medieval Europe, and the scientific breakthroughs that led to modern medicine.