J. Warwick Sweeney's "Hardy Tree" (2019)

Rochdale, Lancashire, England: Bracketpress (book, history, biography, fiction), 2019.
8.75" x 6.25" x 1.625", 400 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 978-1-9996740-3-8.

Hardy Tree: A Doctor's Bible by J. Warwick Sweeney, the grandson of Dr. J. Yerbury Dent, published by Bracketpress (Rochdale, Lancashire, England) in an edition of 500 copies in 2019.

This is part biography, part fictionalized history, a story of Dr. J. Yerbury Dent, his clinic and practice, and the Apromorphine treatment that he provided to William S. Burroughs, suffering from his heroin addiction.

A beautiful book, filled with photos, illustrations, and letter reproductions, many related to Burroughs.

Contents: 

• Introduction by J. Warwick Sweeney
• Editor's Note
• Foreword by Andrew J. Lees
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Rampside
• 2. London, April 1956
• 3. From Science to Séance
• 4. Siamese Fighting Fish and Ulysses
• 5. Leave Well Alone
• 6. 99 Cromwell Road
• 7. TB
• 8. Dent Meets Benway
• 9. Death Before Dishonour
• 10. Buffoons Talking Bollocks
• 11. St. Pancras, Poor Law Infirmary, 1918
• 12. Waking Suggestion
• 13. Drunks 
• 14. Silent Waiting
• 15. Eugenics
• 16. Riding Stang
• 17. Savages
• 18. When Lee Became Burroughs