The Sick Rose :

A beautifully gruesome and strangely enthralling visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography.

Exquisitely detailed illustrations from some of the world’s rarest medical books form an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind’s age-old struggle with disease.

This evocative overview, incorporating historic maps, charts, medical instruments and cas...

A beautifully gruesome and strangely enthralling visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography.

Exquisitely detailed illustrations from some of the world’s rarest medical books form an unforgettable and profoundly human reminder of mankind’s age-old struggle with disease.

This evocative overview, incorporating historic maps, charts, medical instruments and case notes, reveals the fears and preoccupations of an era at the mercy of epidemics, infection and bodily decay.

Richard Barnett is an academic medical historian with a PhD in History of Medicine and is author of 'Medical London' and the 'Dedalus Book of Gin'. He received one of the first Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowships.