Samuel Johnson in the Medical World

Samuel Johnson has become known to posterity in two capacities: through his own works as the great literary essayist of the eighteenth century and through Boswell''s Life as a man--notoriously a medical patient with a string of physical and psychological ailments. John Wiltshire brings the two together in this original study of Johnson the writer as doctor and patient. The subject of modern medical historians'' case studies Johnson also cultivated the acquaintance of doctors in his own day and w...See More