The Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics such as cholera and diphtheria, driven by industrialization, urbanization and poor hygiene. In this pre-color-photography era, accurate images were relied upon to teach students and aid diagnosis. The best examples, featured here, are remarkable pieces of art that attempted to elucidate the mysteries of the body, and the successive onset of each affliction. Bizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections,...
The Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics suc...
'The Sick Rose' is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. It combines detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the world's rarest medical books to form an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind's struggle with disease.
'The Sick Rose' is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. It combines detai...
Crucial Interventions follows this evolution, drawing from magnificent examples of rare surgical textbooks from the mid-nineteenth century. Graphic and sometimes unnerving yet beautifully rendered, these fascinating illustrations, acquired from the Wellcome Collection's extensive archives, include step-by-step surgical techniques paired with depictions of medical instruments and depictions of operations in progress. Arranged for the layman (from head to toe)Crucial Interventions is a captivating look at the early history of one of the world's most mysterious and macabre...
Crucial Interventions follows this evolution, drawing from magnificent examples of rare surgical textbooks from the mid-nineteenth century. G...
This achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivating, grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. It charts the changing social attitudes toward the purpose and practice of dentistry from the crude and painful endeavors of early civilizations to the fluoridated water, cosmetic surgery, and heightened expectations of today.
Organized chronologically, The Smile Stealers interleaves beautiful and gruesome 3D objects, technical illustrations, and...
This achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivatin...
