Biographic Clinics (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): The Origin of the Ill-Health of De Quincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley, and Browning

by George M. Gould

Overview

Taking five well known 19th century figures as his subjects, distinguished ophthalmologist George M. Gould searches for the origins of ill health in Thomas de Quincey, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Robert Browning. He ultimately discovers eyestrain to be the root of their health problems. This 1903 volume sketches the medical facts of the lives in question, and includes discussions of biliousness, headache, vertigo, the discovery of astigmatism, and the physiology of vision.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411454965
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	05/17/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	230
File size:	224 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

George Milbrey Gould (1848-1922) was a drummer boy during the Civil War, and attended Harvard Divinity School. He became an ophthalmologist and invented the cemented bifocal lens. He was also editor of American Medicine and wrote A Pocket Medical Dictionary, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, Righthandedness and Lefthandedness, The Practitioner’s Medical Dictionary, and The Infinite Presence.