This Long Disease, My Life : : Alexander Pope and the Sciences / / Marjorie Hope Nicolson, George Sebastian Rousseau.
When in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" Pope referred to "this long disease, my life," his statement was quite literally true, since Pope, in addition to being a dwarf and a hunchback, suffered from many diseases during his lifetime. With technical advice from several physicians,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1968 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One. A Medical Case History of Alexander Pope
- A Medical Case History of Alexander Pope
- Part Two. Pope and Medicine
- Pope and Medicine
- I. Circulation and Transfusion
- II. Animalitarianism
- III. The Mary Toft Case
- IV. Pope and "Vomition"
- V. The "Mummius" Episode
- Part Three. Pope and Astronomy
- Alexander Pope and Astronomy
- Part Four. Pope and Other Sciences
- I. The Old and the New
- II. The Small in Nature
- III. Grottoes and Geology
- IV. Color and Light
- Appendix. Dr. Thomas Thompson
- Dr. Thomas Thompson
- Index