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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-
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    St. Martin's Press, 2012.
    Call #:820.9 R824s
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  • ISBN: 
    9780312600761 (hc.)
    0312600763 (hc.)
    Edition: 
    1st ed.
    Description: 
    x, 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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    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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