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The doctor suddenly appeared beside Will, startling him. He was sleek and prosperous, with a dainty goatee. Though he smiled reassuringly, the poet noticed that he kept a safe distance. In a soothing, urbane voice, the physician explained the stewed prunes to evacuate the bowels; succulent meats to ease digestion; cinnabar and the sweating tub to cleanse the disease from the skin. The doctor warned of minor side uncontrolled drooling, fetid breath, bloody gums, shakes and palsies. Yet desperate diseases called for desperate remedies, of course. Were Shakespeare 's shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement connected? Did John Milton go blind from his propaganda work for the Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell, as he believed, or did he have a rare and devastating complication of a very common eye problem? Did Jonathan Swift 's preoccupation with sex and filth result from a neurological condition that might also explain his late-life surge in creativity? What Victorian plague wiped out the entire Bront family? What was the cause of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's sudden demise? Were Herman Melville 's disabling attacks of eye and back pain the product o

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Author

John J. Ross, M.D

Publisher

New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312600761

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.7 / 5 (273 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14