Tenements of clay : an anthology of medical biographical essays

Author(s)

• Sorsby, Arnold

Bibliographic Information

Tenements of clay : an anthology of medical biographical essays

chosen and edited by Arnold Sorsby

Julian Friedmann Publishers Ltd, 1974

Note

Includes bibliographies

Contents of Works

• Noah: an albino / Arnold Sorsby
• Job's illness: pellagra / Charles J. Brim
• The medical problems of Henry VIII / Ove Brinch
• Shakespeare's skull and brain / Sir Arthur Keith
• The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's handwriting / R.W. Leftwich
• Milton's blindness / Arnold Sorsby
• Swift's deafness and his last illness / T.G. Wilson
• Samuel Johnson's medical experiences / Sir Humphry Rolleston
• The insanity of George III: a classic case of porphyria / Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter
• Historical implications of porphyria / John Brooke
• Jane Austen's last illnes / Sir Zachary Cope
• Beethoven's deafness / Maurice Sorsby
• The illness and death of Napoleon / Arnold Chaplin
• Darwin's health in relation to his voyage to South America / A.W. Woodruff
• Abraham Lincoln's Marfan syndrome / Harold Schwartz

• NCID: BA11639574
• ISBN:
  • 0904014088
• LCCN: 75313408
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 258 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R703
  • DC : 616/.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medicine -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Biography -- Addresses, essays, lectures