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Literary Vignettes

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This section features extracts and quotes from literary works relating to medicine and commentaries or reviews about them.

 

Dunea, George

All life is a gift, 2013; 5:2
Alexander Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo - locked in syndrome, 2012

Doctor and dictionary, 2013

Edgar Allen Poe - The Masque of the Red Death, 2013; 5:1

Edward Gibbon - on two educations, 2012

Flaubert - Madame Bovary - The clubfoot operation, 2012; 4:2

Francis Peabody: caring for the patient, 2013

From Merdle to Madoff, 2013
George Orwell - How the Poor Die , 1946, 2012

Jane Austen - The Watsons, 2012

Jane Austen and the Hypochondriacs, 2011; 3:3
Jules Verne - Mathias Sandorf - the doctor's revenge, 2013; 5:1
Lead poisoning in Northern Yorkshire, 2012

Molière - The Physician in Spite of Himself, 2012; 4:1
Peter Mark Roget - of the Thesaurus, 2012; 4:1

Rabelais - how Gargantua was born, 2012; 4:3

Rabelais, 2012

Richard Gordon - Doctor in the House, 2012; 4:2
Sir Thomas Browne - Religio Medici , 2012
Stendhal syndrome, a hazard of tourism, 2012; 4:1
The Man of One Book, 2012; 4:1
Thucydites - The Peloponesian War - The Plague of Athens, 2012

W. B. Matthews - on giddiness, 2013; 5:1
William Somerset Maugham - reading should be a pleasure, 2012

Metzler, Sally

Does art belong in a doctor's office?, 2013

Perman, Einar

The basilisk—a cause of sudden death, 2012; 4:2

Posen, Solomon

The doctor in bed with the patient, 2013; 5:2

The vindictive departmental chairman: a hospital tale of the 1970s, 2013; 5:2