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Tenements of clay : an anthology of medical biographical essays /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sorsby, Arnold, 1900-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [1974]
Subjects:
Famous Persons.
Medicine > Case Reports.
Table of Contents:
  • Noah, an albino / Arnold Sorsby
  • Job's illness, pellagra / Charles Brim
  • The medical problems of Henry VIII / Ove Arnold Brinch
  • Shakespeare's skull and brain / Sir Arthur Keith
  • The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's skull and brain / R.W. Leftwich
  • Milton's blindness / Arnold Sorsby
  • Swift's deafness and his last illness / T.G. Wilson
  • Samuel Johnson's medical experiences / Sir Humphrey Rolleston
  • The 'insanity' of King George III / Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter
  • Historical implications of porphyria / John Brooke
  • Jane Austen's last illness / Sir Zachary Cope
  • Beethoven's deafness / Maurice Sorsby
  • The illness and death of Napoleon / Arnold Chaplin
  • Darwin's health in relation to his voyage to South America / A.W. Woodruff
  • Abraham Lincoln's Marfan syndrome / Harold Schwartz.