I'm somewhat obsessed with various aspects of medical history and documentation, and have a reasonable little collection of books on such. So my demands might be quite different from less obsessive readers. Warning: grumpy notes ahead.) Today I learned that leprosy (Hansen's Disease) can be really beautiful and yes I am well aware of how strange that it is to say but im talking purely of art and temporarily ignoring the physical agony and social stigma these folks would've gone through. It’s hard, maybe impossible at this great remove to truly appreciate a pre-photography world. It’s like trying to imagine a world where the only way to experience music was to hear it live. The Rose – Allegorically the rose is a conventional symbol of love. It also symbolizes beauty, innocence and purity. The worm has found out the bed of the rose. It is the place of crimson, warm joy. Crimson joy may denote physical, earthly pleasure which provides warmth but ultimately brings spiritual destruction and death.

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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 Left: A man with a large pendant hip tumour. Right: A man with a large pendant face tumour. Lam Qua Growing up, I was absolutely FASCINATED by my mother's medical textbooks with all their gore and awesomely terrifying information. So maybe my repeated readings of those are why I felt let down by this book: The information in it was exceptionally basic and even the discussion of the art the book's about was... Meh.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. 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. For a time, condemned criminals were routinely sentenced to death and public dissection, their bodies donated to the Medical Institutes*. This practice was ended in the early 19th Century, but parliament allowed that any person found dead without identification and/or someone willing to claim their body would be fair game for anatomical research. This amounted to depriving the poorest classes of any guarantee that they would be given a decent burial, and many were outraged that poverty alone meant they might be dissected publicly like criminals. 'Burial Insurance' became a popular method of avoiding the indignities that might have been inflicted on their bodies. As test subjects became scarce, members of the nascent medical community were complicit in murder, paying money to the 'Ghouls' that stalked the harbors for departing ships, where they would kill drunken sailors not likely to be missed and deliver them to the Anatomists. First of all, there is the origin of the corpses to dissect and portray. At first, they came from the gallows. Starting in 1752, the sentence for murder in English courts included indeed public dissection. Body snatchers would supply corpses of pregnant women and foetus and any extra cadaver if needed. The 1832 Anatomy Act, however, abolished the dissection of executed criminals but allowed anatomy schools to use the body of anyone who had died unclaimed in hospitals. Which means that it was no longer crime that lead you to the dissection table, it was poverty. The earliest years of what would become modern medicine were remarkable in the lengths these 'Resurrectionists' went to in obtaining corpses for study. Doctors functioning under the influence of dangerously obsessive desires, be they purely for intellectual enlightenment and eventual renown, or something far more perverse, created a dark and ugly industry... and in 18th and 19th century Europe, that's really saying something.

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QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE YOUR BAT MITZVAH WENDY'S SUBWAY/CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY/INSTIT ISBN: 9798986337524 The illustrations are beautifully reproduced. Unfortunately, the text is, more often than not, dry and academic, and almost entirely focused on snippets of medical practices rather than the illustrators and illustrations. It's great to see beautiful samples of Kanda Gensen's textured paper prints and Lam Qua's paintings, but Gensen and Qua are only briefly mentioned in captions. I'm certainly more interested in Gensen's techniques, than in (say) the well-known historical use of mercury to treat venereal diseases. It's also laborious to match the illustrations with the sources. The medical illustrations within it are- despite the content- gorgeous. I'd never considered the effort before that goes into making medical illustrations, but I've left this book with a renewed appreciation. Given that these were done in the 17th and 18th centuries makes it all the more impressive. These would have been done with the patient, living or deceased, in front of the artist. The amount of care required would have been enormous.William Blake was the foremost poet of the group called the ‘Precursors of Romanticism. From boyhood days he had the visions. So his poetry glows with spiritual intensity and is simple and sublime. As he was a professionally trained engraver, he published his own poems using process called ‘illuminated printing’. So to understand his poems in a much better way, the painting and engraving with the original poem help a lot. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

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The two quatrains of this poem rhyme ABCB. The ominous rhythm of these short, two-beat lines contributes to the poem’s sense of foreboding or dread and complements the unflinching directness with which the speaker tells the rose she is dying. Analysis The feet of an infant with hereditary syphilis, showing the skin covered in pustules. Photograph: Wellcome Library, London 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.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'. His auspicious time that is the night shows that he comes like a ferocious creature to vigil and extend disease into the object he chooses. The worm desires to fly not just at night but also when the tempest blows and there is tumult in the air. But all the greater is its authority and dynamism since it can even endure the stormy ambiance. If the worm outshines in strength the rose is comfortable. Its easy and undemanding petals of joy welcome the strength of the worm though it turns unwell later.

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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 worm is described as invisible. Probably as it flies in night, in darkness, the small worm remains invisible. It can also fly in the midst of great stormy night. The description of the worm and its journey in the night denotes evil, deceit hypocrisy and pain. It's an interesting though not an easy read, mostly because of the font size. However its content is worth reading. Preview our Fall 2023 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture. Blake's prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the language". His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced." Although he only once travelled any further than a day's walk outside London over the course of his life, his creative vision engendered a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced 'imagination' as "the body of God", or "Human existence itself".The writing is informative and impeccably researched, delving into the gruesome history of anatomical study in a professional manner that walks the tightrope between sensationalistic indulgence of morbid fascination on the one side, and overly clinical jargon designed to emotionally distance the reader on the other. Then there are the stories that accompany each disease studied in the book. Leprosy, aka the “Imperial Danger”, that reappeared in the 19th century when doctors and missionaries traveled to tropical colonies. Smallpox and how the first vaccine was successfully developed with the help of pretty milkmaids. Venereal diseases and syphilis in particular which was treated by injection or ingestion of mercury. Et cetera.