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Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers

By : John J. Ross

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Book Synopsis :

The Bard meets "House "in John J. Ross's "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough," an illumination of the medical mysteries surrounding ten of the English language's most heralded writers.Were Shakespeare's shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement connected? Did John Milton go blind from his propaganda work for Oliver Cromwell, or did he have a rare and devastating complication of a very common eye problem? Did Jonathan Swift's preoccupation with sex and filth result from a neurological condition that might also explain his late-life surge in creativity? Were Herman Melville's disabling attacks of eye and back pain the product of "nervous affections," or did he actually have a malady that was unknown to medical science until well after his death? Was Jack London a suicide, or was his death the product of a series of self-induced medical misadventures? Did James Joyce need several horrific eye operations because of a strange autoimmune

Book Detail :

Author : John J. Ross

Pages : 304 pages

Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin

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ISBN-10 : 1250042763

ISBN-13 : 9781250042767

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