The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration | 
I realized that between the move and the new job and all the other excitement I‘ve had this summer I hadn‘t updated my blog since February! Giant catch-up post from me for March through July. Up to 94 for the year, over 50% from my TBR list. My oldest TBR book was from January 2017, which is when I‘m pretty sure I wiped my Goodreads lists and started fresh. The tagged book was one of my favorites, though there were many.
pickI loved this book! It's a very fast read since it's mostly pictures, but you do get a mini-history of groups of diseases and progress within medical science. The first chapter does smell of artsy pretentiousness, but it gets better as the chapters get more specific.
How typical! And now I must read Ghosts. Ibsen, what a guy!
Yup. We're heading into the Venereal Diseases chapter! 😱
Cancer. This book is a great mini history of the world's most troublesome diseases. There are two entire pages with drawings of various tongue tumours.
Leprosy! I read a Norwegian book on leprosy a couple of years ago, and it must have explained why it was so widespread in Norway (and existed well into the 20th century, with the last death in like 1980!) but for the life of me I can't remember what the reason was. If you look at the world map of leprosy from the 19th century it's India and parts of Asia, parts of southern America, some countries in Africa - and Norway!
This book is stunning! I may end up posting quite a bit from it.
Oslo book haul! I've been drooling over the Sick Rose before, this time I actually got it. "Alcohol" is a book with Soviet anti-alcohol posters.
