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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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 Moore Stacks  R703 .O23    Available  ---
Description xiv, 291 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (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.
Medicine.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Authors -- Health and hygiene -- Case studies.
Authors -- Health and hygiene.
Authors.
Authors -- Biography.
Authors -- Biography.
Literature and medicine.
Literature and medicine.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Online version: Ober, William B. Boswell's clap and other essays. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1979 (OCoLC)561085072
ISBN 0809308894
9780809308897