The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

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Bizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections, make all too clear the fascinations of both doctors and artists of the time Another gorgeously illustrated book gifted to me by my best friend for my birthday... only this one is of a very different topic than Jane Austen. Apparently she went to the store and requested 'the grossest book they have'. Hence, the design expressed by Blake has also been construed as having sexual allusions. Its subject is copulation. Based on Freudian psychoanalysis, the rose can be deemed as the feminine and the worm as male. These representations, or the scheme following them, blend concealed feelings of offensiveness and harsh reprimand, culpability and coercion. These emotions of shyness are in fact associated with sexual understanding particularly in the adolescent psyche. The libidinal characters in the juvenile mind are regularly deterred and censored due to social exclusion and fallacy. The worm, to go with this scheme, is appropriately portrayed as ‘invisible’ and it ‘flies in the night’. The worm is animate and dynamic at night: and this allusion to night hints at the confidentiality of the thing as well as its catastrophic brunt.

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It's the color plates that are the main part of the book. Genuine color plates used for medical training, some are people who have been infected others are taken from dissected parts. The cover of the book is a twenty three year old woman who has been infected with Cholera for only an hour. Who knew pustules and tumors could be so lovely? If you like to look at pretty books this is one to get your hands on. Everything from the binding to the paper and design is awesome. I particularly enjoyed the section on skin diseases, having one myself that is usually embarrassing to think about. I'm not sure what it is and unfortunately could not use this book to self-diagnose. The pictures, as gruesome as they are beautiful, just increased my fascination of the human body, its insurrections and decomposition and how it has been perceived through time.The feet of an infant with hereditary syphilis, showing the skin covered in pustules. Photograph: Wellcome Library, London

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La parte dedicada a las enfermedades de la piel y al cáncer me ha partido el corazón. Las ilustraciones son tan desagradables como brutalmente bellas. La pena: haberlo leído en PDF. Espero que pronto me llegue la edición física, para que cada cicatriz pueda ser acariciada. Para que cada enfermo, en realidad, huela a tinta. Each chapter has a historical overview of the disease and how it was treated. The descriptions of the ongoing research were very interesting. Usually research involved experimenting on prisoners but sometimes unwitting servants would do. One Dr injected himself with Gonorrhoea to prove it was a separate disease from Syphillis.Left: The face of a male patient showing rupia, a severe encrusted rash associated with secondary syphillis. Right: A woman’s face, affected with lesions of impetigo. Prince A. Morrow, Atlas of Skin and Venereal Diseases including a brief treatise on the pathology and treatment, London, 1898 Diffused and spotted pulmonary apoplexy in a tubercular lung, drawn by Berhari Lal Das at the Medical College of Calcutta in 1906. Photograph: St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archive The Rose – Allegorically the rose is a conventional symbol of love. It also symbolizes beauty, innocence and purity. THE GROTESQUE FACTOR FUNDACIóN MUSEO PICASSO MáLAGA/LEGADO PAUL, CHRISTINE Y BERNARD RUIZ-PICASSO ISBN: 9788494024924 Preview our Fall 2023 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.