The sick rose: or, disease and the art of medical illustration

Abstract

The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the world's rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind's struggle with disease.

Contents

I.Skin Diseases. The Boundary of the Body -- II.Leprosy. More than Skin Deep -- III.Smallpox. Blistered by Act of Parliament -- IV.Tuberculosis. The White Death -- V.Cholera. A Free Trade in Disease -- VI.Cancer. The Claws of the Crab -- VII.Heart Disease. Crowns and Murmurs -- VIII.Venereal Diseases. A Lifetime with Mercury -- IX.Parasites. Colonizers Colonized -- X.Gout. Fashionable Agony.