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Orwell's Cough. Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers
by ROSS, John
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- ISBN 13
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Oneworld Publications, Oneworld Publications. 2012, 277pp. Paperback. In very good condition. "The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, he explained the treatment stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating tub... Desperate diseases called for desperate remedies. Did Will Shakespeare's doctors addle his brain with cinnabar and mercury? Was Jane Eyre inspired by the plagued school that claimed the Bronte clan? Did writing 1984 kill George Orwell? Dr John Ross of Harvard Medical School opens his surgery to consult with the likes of Milton, Swift, Melville, Joyce, and Jack London, exploring the history of medicine as never before, from the Bard's cloaked visits to Southwark to cure his unsavoury rashes to the arsenic-and-horse-serum jabs given for Yeats's fevers. With novelistic flair and deep expertise, Ross reveals a wholly absorbing new view on the writer's life." ISBN: 9781780742250
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- Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers
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- 65934
- Title
- Orwell's Cough. Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers
- Author
- ROSS, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1780742258
- ISBN 13
- 9781780742250
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications, Oneworld Publications
- This edition first published
- 2013
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