| Description |
xiv, 337 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-332) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Illness -- 1. "Violent fatigues," "Bad lips," and unwell hands -- 2. Beagle illnesses -- 3. Hard work, occasional unwellness, discovering the theory of natural selection, and marriage -- 4. Malaise, vomiting, and the beginning of "extreme spasmodic daily & nightly flatulence" -- 5. Moving to Down and developing a "profoundly tranquil" routine of work, rest, and walks around the sandwalk -- 6. Treatments from father, father's death, prolonged vomiting, and treatments from Dr. Gully with hydropathy at Malvern -- 7. Self-observation and doing Dr. Gully's treatments at Down and then self-observation and treating himself -- 8. Working "too hard" on Natural Selection and treatments at Moor Park -- 9. "Dreadfully up-hill work" on the Origin of Species and treatments at Moor Park and Ilkley -- 10. Illness and "anxious looking forward" -- 11. Prolonged vomiting and treatments from doctors Ayerst, Gully, Brinton, and Jenner -- 12. Prolonged vomiting and treatments from doctors Jenner, Chapman, and Bence Jones -- |
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13. Improved health and living in a "perpetually half knocked-up condition" -- 14. Final illness -- 15. Darwin's use of snuff and alcohol -- pt. 2. Theories of the origins of the illness -- 16. Theories of Darwin's doctors, and of Darwin -- 17. Several different theories -- 18. Theories of Keith and Alvarz, and a comparison of Darwin's illness with the illnesses of his relatives and children -- 19. Psychoanalytic theories -- 20. Possibility of Chagas' disease -- 21. Medical theories -- 22. Possibility of toxicity from arsenic, and from other medicines -- 23. Possibility of illness from pigeon allergens -- 24. Two psychosomatic theories -- 25. Psychiatric theories of Bowlby, and of Barloon and Noyes -- 26. Theory of dysfunction of the immune system -- 27. Possibility of adrenal disease -- 28. Possibility of systemic lupus erythematosus -- 29. A dermatological diagnosis -- 30. Possibility of systemic lactose intolerance -- 31. Possibility of Crohn's disease -- Summary -- Appendix : Darwin's diary of health -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. |
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Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Naturalists. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Chronic diseases -- Case studies.
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Chronic diseases. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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| ISBN |
9780813032313 alkaline paper |
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0813032318 alkaline paper |
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