Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers Pdf

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Edition: First Edition
Release: 2012-10-16
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0312600763
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough pdf
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The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. He was sleek and prosperous, with a dainty goatee. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, the physician explained the treatment: stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating tub to cleanse the disease from the skin. The doctor warned of minor side effects: uncontrolled drooling, fetid breath, bloody gums, shakes and palsies. Yet desperate diseases called for desperate remedies, of course.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 the Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell, as he believed, 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 lat Download Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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