Top 10 Books September 2023
Review for Cells at Work! Lady, Vol. 1
I received this book from Netgalley/the publisher in exchange of an honest review.
Six for Sunday ~ 31-7-2022: Yellow books
Review for Kay’s Marvellous Medicine
Adam Kay is back with a new book about the body! This time we are diving into the history of the human body and learn all about what the past thought about it (and what the future will bring).
Top 10 Books November 2021
Review for Cells at Work! White Brigade, Vol.1
Friday’s Page 69 ~ Kay’s Marvellous Medicine by Adam Kay
Meanwhile, William Harvey was starting to wonder if Galen’s theories were a load of nonsense. He thought it didn’t sound quite right that your body immediately used up all the blood that flowed through it and you then had to make new blood out of food: if that was true, then everyone would have to eat around eight hundred hamburgers every lunchtime to stay alive. Nobody eats that much (if you’re having eight hundred hamburgers for lunch, I strongly advice you to cute down) and we don’t all collapse because we’ve run out of blood, so he proved that Galen was making it all up. So that’s a custard pie in the face for Galen.
