The world's worst diseases

The year is 1834 and Nouveline and Mario have just moved from the country to the big city of Stockholm. Unfortunately, the nasty disease cholera is ravaging the town and Nouveline and Mario quickly fall ill. The doctor tries to cure them with everything from pig's feet and herbs to blood-sucking leeches, but the question is whether Nouveline and Mario will survive?

In the 13th century, it is the church that decides most things in Swedish society, and it is precisely during a church visit that Anna and Max find out that they have been affected by leprosy. With large boils on their faces and a warning leprosy bell around their waists, Anna and Max are relegated to isolation in a leper colony. Will it make them healthy again?

In the 18th century, many battles are fought at sea and Sixten and Mario are kidnapped to become part of the crew of a warship. On the boat they are forced to work hard and after a few years both Sixten and Mario develop the fatal disease scurvy. Despite bleeding wounds and breathing difficulties, Sixten and Mario are forced to stay and work on the boat. Will it be their death?

Jake and Lea end up in the trading town of Birka, in the middle of the Viking Age. After a nasty fight in the village, the children get infected wounds and suffer from gangrene. The doctors of the time are reminiscent of healers and the children get to try both the laying on of hands and making offerings in their attempts to recover from their illness. Will Jake and Lea survive, or will they receive a true Viking burial?

The year is 1773 and when Emmi and Lea are guilty of vagrancy, they end up in prison at Långholmen in Stockholm. After a few weeks in the dirty and crowded environment, they both suffer from typhus, a really nasty disease that is transmitted by clothes lice. Although the doctor tries to cure Emmi and Lea both with death's powder and "wine in the left shoe", the future is uncertain for our two guinea pigs.

When Jake and Anna work as miners in the 19th century, they are struck by the terrible disease stone dust lung. As if that wasn't enough, they are also involved in a mining race and are seriously injured! At the mining hospital, the doctor does his best to cure the two children - they even get to try the newfangled physiotherapy. But the question is, does it help?