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Tenements of clay : an anthology of medical biographical essays / chosen and edited by Arnold Sorsby.

Contributor(s): Sorsby, Arnold, 1900-, Sorsby, Arnold, 1900-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Julian Friedmann Publishers Ltd, 1974Subject(s): Medicine -- Case studies. -- Medicine -- Case studies | BiographyDDC classification: 616/.09
Contents:
Sorsby, A. Noah, an albino -- Brim, C.J. Job's illness, pellagra -- Brinch, O. The medical problems of Henry VIII -- Keith, A., Sir. Shakespeare's skull and brain -- Leftwich, R.W. The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's handwriting -- Sorsby, A. Milton's blindness -- Wilson, T.G. Swift's deafness and his last illness -- Rolleston, H., Sir. Samuel Johnson's medical experiences -- Macalpine, I. and Hunter, R. The insanity of George III, a classic case of porphyria -- Brooke, J. Historical implications of porphyria -- Cope, Z., Sir. Jane Austen's last illnes -- Sorsby, M. Beethoven's deafness -- Chaplin, A. The illness and death of Napoleon -- Woodruff, A.W. Darwin's health in relation to his voyage to South America -- Schwartz, H. Abraham Lincoln's Marfan syndrome.
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Sorsby, A. Noah, an albino -- Brim, C.J. Job's illness, pellagra -- Brinch, O. The medical problems of Henry VIII -- Keith, A., Sir. Shakespeare's skull and brain -- Leftwich, R.W. The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's handwriting -- Sorsby, A. Milton's blindness -- Wilson, T.G. Swift's deafness and his last illness -- Rolleston, H., Sir. Samuel Johnson's medical experiences -- Macalpine, I. and Hunter, R. The insanity of George III, a classic case of porphyria -- Brooke, J. Historical implications of porphyria -- Cope, Z., Sir. Jane Austen's last illnes -- Sorsby, M. Beethoven's deafness -- Chaplin, A. The illness and death of Napoleon -- Woodruff, A.W. Darwin's health in relation to his voyage to South America -- Schwartz, H. Abraham Lincoln's Marfan syndrome.

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