It seems sometimes that Mr Ostler, fascinated by ancient uses of language, wanted to write a different sort of book but was persuaded by his publisher to play up the English angle.

Google created some seriously nifty infrared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when the book is placed in the scanner.

This book confirms the truthfulness of this masterpiece and affirms that it was produced in the 15th from the angle of the cultural background which History of Medicine produced.