The victims of tuberculosis (usually known as consumption) included not only Keats, The Brontës, Chopin and Chekhov, but members of almost ... read full description
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Dec 04, 2011
Patricia
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I've wanted to read this extraordinary book, found a very nice ex library copy and read it compulsively. Dormandy is a pathologist and medical historian who lightens great learning with a restrained British wit. He is richly competent in music, art, literary history, all in play in many gripping and surprising cameo portraits of the afflicted: Watteau, Keats, the Brontes, Edvard Munch's sister Sophie, Chopin, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Brownings, D H Lawrence, Modigliani, Kafka, George Orwell,
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Dec 07, 2011
Alice
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I preferred Jean Dubos' White Plague, written around 1950, which covers most of the same examples more succinctly.
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