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"Jan Mikolasek, a 20th century Czech herbal healer won fame and fortune treating celebrities of the interwar, Nazi, and Communist eras with his uncanny knack for 'urinary diagnosis'. But his passion for healing welled up from the same source as a lust for cruelty, sadism, and an incapacity for love that only one person could ever quell, his assistant, Frantisek. As a show trial threatens to pry open these secrets and undo him, Jan's dichotomies are...

Typographic specimen book produced by "Grafika", which was originally founded in Kutná Hora in 1894 and existed in various forms until 1953. The present iteration was active from 1926 to 1937, as is reflected by the mix of typefaces, which include foreign and modernist-influenced choices.--