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This Long Disease, My Life : Alexander Pope and the Sciences /

The authors of this book present a medical case history of the poet Alexander Pope (who suffered from many diseases throughout his life besides his well known dwarfism and hunchback). Drawing heavily upon the Correspondence for information about Pope's symptoms, they discuss his various ailment...

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Autores principales: Nicolson, Marjorie Hope, 1894-1981, Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1968.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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