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Orwell's Cough Diagnosing the Medical Maladies and Last Gasps of the Great Writers

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What literature would we now have if only writers such as Shakespeare, Yeats and the Brontes hadn’t pegged out early – or succumbed to disease. Reading some of the treatments on offer, pegging out early was probably the best course of action, not only was there painful, rudimentary treatments, the medicines on offer – mercury – for one was highly toxic. A select 10 (or 12, if you count all the Bronte sisters) literary geniuses come under John Ross’s pen, wielded with great sympathy and enlightenment into past medical traumas.

 

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