As Mable's mysterious package leads her through the hilario us, amazing, disgusting but trueHistory of Medicine, she is drawn into incredible stories of chance and tragedy ... Like the parents who stuffed smallpox scabs up the ir kids' noses, and the GP who deliberately gave a kid a killer disease ... ran out . . .Like the parents who stuffed smallpox scabs up their kids' noses and the GP who deliberately gave a kid a killer disease . . .You'll hear about how a doctor's snot helped heal millions, how big breasts inspired a brainwave, and how Iggy was laughed out of town for suggesting hand washing in hospitals . . .And many more!