Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough, the medical lives of famous writers, John J. Ross, M.D
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Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough, the medical lives of famous writers, John J. Ross, M.D
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-277) and index
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contains biographical information
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non fiction
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Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough
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bibliography
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778422341
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John J. Ross, M.D
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the medical lives of famous writers
Table Of 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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