Beautiful and shocking vintage medical drawings – in pictures
Hand-drawn and textured pages from a rare, possibly unique, Japanese treatise on smallpox - The Essentials of Smallpox (Toshin seiyo) written in the late seventeeth or early eighteenth century by the Japanese doctor Kanda Gensen. These illustrations offer a different way of depicting disease, one that invokes touch as much as sight.
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