![]() ![]() Ross brings a writer’s flair and a physician’s mind to the task. It’s hard to play doctor across the distances of time and space, so some of these diagnoses are admittedly uncertain. In many of these famous plays, poems, and novels, the descriptions of the maladies are vivid and the impact on the characters visceral.įrom the intensity of the descriptions, coupled with letters and diaries from the writers and their companions, we now know that some of those literary diseases were drawn from actual life experiences of the writers. Tuberculosis affects characters in Jane Eyre and several other works. James Joyce has multiple descriptive names for gonorrhea. ![]() Shakespeare frequently refers obliquely to syphilis. Ross, M.D.Ĭertain writers’ works are, dare I say, infected with certain maladies. Nonfiction: Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough, John J. Book Review: Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough, John J. ![]()
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