The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography.
Incorporating historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes, Richard Barnetts evocative overview reveals the fears and obsessions of an era gripped by epidemics..
This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankinds struggle with disease.
The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography