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Author Ober, William B., 1920-1993

Title Boswell's clap and other essays : medical analyses of literary men's afflictions / by William B. Ober.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1979]
©1979

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  809 OBER    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, facsimile (on lining papers) ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Boswell's clap -- Swinburne's masochism : neuropathology and psychopathology -- Lady Chatterley's what? -- Drowsed with the fume of poppies : opium and John Keats -- Madness and poetry: a note on Collins, Cowper, and Smart -- Chekhov among the doctors : the doctor's dilemma -- William Carlos Williams, M.D. : physician as poet -- Earl of Rochester and ejaculatio praecox -- Thomas Shadwell : his exitus revis'd -- Did Socrates die of hemlock poisoning?
Subject Medicine -- Case studies.
Authors -- Health and hygiene -- Case studies.
Authors -- Biography.
Literature and medicine.
Famous Persons -- Essays.
Medicine in Literature -- Essays.
Schrijvers.
Ziektegeschiedenissen.
ISBN 0809308894
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