The Immune System Your Magic Doctor: A Guide to the Immune System for the Curious of All Ages - Hardcover

Garvy, Helen

 
9780918828095: The Immune System Your Magic Doctor: A Guide to the Immune System for the Curious of All Ages

Synopsis

A guide to the immune system for the curious of all ages. Illustrated with cartoon characters, the book demystifies the workings of the various parts of the immune system. It explains how the immune system keeps you healthy and how it helps heal you when you get sick. Includes information on allergies, AIDS, and vaccines.

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About the Author

Helen Garvy (Harvard '64) is a writer, filmmaker, and teacher who became fascinated with the immune system. This book is based on an award-winning film of the same title.

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(From the introduction) Your body is truly amazing and has its very own build-in 'magic doctor' -- the immune system -- that helps keep you well and helps heal you when you get sick. This book will introduce you to the immune system and help you understand such things as fever, pus, vaccines, allergies, colds, auto-immune diseases, cancer, and AIDS -- and, most importantly, how to stay healthy.

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9780918828101: The Immune System Your Magic Doctor: A Guide to the Immune System for the Curious of All Ages

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ISBN 10:  0918828104 ISBN 13:  9780918828101
Publisher: Shire Pr, 1992
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