Author: Ober, William B.
Title: Boswell's clap and other essays. Medical analyses of literary men's afflictions.
Description: Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979; xviii+291pp., endnotes, 11 bl-wh illustrations, 8vo, cloth w. dustwrapper. V. good copy. ¶ to take but one example of the blurb: "Dr Ober diagnoses Swinburne's masochism and penchant for writing flagellatory verse and facetiae as the combined results of anoxic brain damage at birth, family constellation, sexual impotence, and the exposure to flagellation at public school." Thoroughly researched and annotated study.

Keywords: biografie geneeskunde, gesch. literary history medical history