A copy of Sir Frederick Treves “The Tale of a Field Hospital” originally published 1900. It was written by Treves during his time at a field hospital during the Second Boer war.
This copy has been custom bound with a lack of identifying information except for the title and author. The book is covered in various stains inside and out with the edges of every page being stained brown by some substance. Pages that have been altered are more filthy then those left unaltered.
The book has been altered from the original text with multiple stories now containing a figure known as Private Amherst who dies from sickness before returning on multiple occasions to interact with Treves to tell him of his revelations of disease.
The book is harmless to read with the true danger of the book coming from the edges of its pages, they are deceptively sharp. Once the reader has been cut by one they will suffer from blood poisoning and die within a few days. This book is a obvious example of the Crawling Rot with sickness and filth heavily associated with it. No further testing is required. It is to be stored in its respective wing and placed on the “do not access” list.
A hard cover pamphlet titled “An introduction to higher anatomy” it is a English reprint belonging to a “department of wellbeing”. From the evidence on the cover and it’s contents is a altered edition of “Introduction to anatomy” by David Edwardes published in 1532.
The original text was the first work written that was solely devoted to anatomy and the first to mention human dissection in England. Only one copy remains and it was of little value even when first published. Edwardes intended to improve upon it but passed away before he published anything. He believed that “no parts of the body should be unknown”.
The book begins with a possible warning of attaining higher anatomy to cure wellness before beginning its nonsense anatomy. It speaks of skin being genuine leather, the Greeks having 12 fingers and the romans blinding the eye within their intestines etc.
The book is likely associated with Étranger with all the unknowns surrounding it with a touch of viscera with all the manipulation of flesh involved.
Reading the book causes a psychological affect on the reader. The reader will begin to question their own anatomy and fear that it is wrong, they won’t be able to comprehend their own anatomy. They fear not knowing what is inside them so they will attempt to find out. Depending on connection to the book they may or may not survive this.
The reader will then begin their attempts to correct their anatomy by following the book. They will never succeed as the book doesn’t make sense. The reader becomes a danger to others at this point as the issue arises that the book mentions things such as having three ventricles meaning the reader will need to find a spare.
