Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough the medical lives of great writers
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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 Brontèˆs 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.
