How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous

I recently finished reading How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg.  Growing up, we learn snippets here and there of famous people such as King Tut, Cleopatra, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Albert Einstein to name a few.  We've learned why they are famous but rarely about their health and how they passed away.  While the topic of death isn't always pleasant, this book informs readers on the lack of medical knowledge at the time when these people lived and how doctors tried to treat them.  It's fascinating to learn what little medical knowledge existed back in those days to compared to today.  Simple ailments today were a real bear to treat hundreds of years ago.  To quote the text from the front book jacket, "From King Tut's ancient autopsy to Henry VIII's explosive demise to Albert Einstein's great brain escape, these pages contain all the gory details of the awful ends of nineteen awfully famous people."