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Ross, John J. (John James), 1966-
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Authors, English -- Biography.
Authors, English -- Health and hygiene.
Literature and medicine.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Health and hygiene.
Diseases and literature.
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Shakespeare's tremor...
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Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough : the medical lives of great writers / John J. Ross, M.D.
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Ross, John J. (John James), 1966-
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Subjects
Authors, English -- Biography.
Authors, English -- Health and hygiene.
Literature and medicine.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Health and hygiene.
Diseases and literature.
ISBN:
9780312600761 (hardcover)
0312600763 (hardcover)
Description:
x, 291 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
The hardest knife ill-used : Shakespeare's tremor -- Exil'd from light : the blindness of John Milton -- Dying from the top down : The dementia of Jonathan Swift -- Some sweet poisoned breeze had passed into her lungs : the Brontës and tuberculosis -- Dismal labyrinth of doubt : the strange death of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Perilous outpost of the sane : the many maladies of Herman Melville -- Sex and the dead : brucellosis, arsenic and William Butler Yeats -- Medical misadventures of an amateur M.D. : Jack London's death by hubris -- An infamous private ailment : the venereal afflictions of James Joyce -- "The disease which was bound to claim me sooner or later" : Orwell's cough.
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The Bard meets "House" in this illumination of the medical mysteries surrounding 10 of the English language's most heralded writers, including John Milton, Jonathan Swift, and Jack London.
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820.9 Ro
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