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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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Ross, John J. (John James), 1966-
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
and Orwell'
s
cough
: the
medical
lives
of
famous
writers
/ John J. Ross, M.D.
by
Ross, John J. (John James), 1966-
St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Call #:
820.9 R824s
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 (hc.)
0312600763 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-277) and index.
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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