13 famous patients /
by Noah D. Fabricant, M.D.
- 1st ed.
- 188 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Includes bibliography.
The respiratory-cardiovascular story of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- The medical decline and fall of Adolf Hitler -- The medical life and times of Mohandas Gandhi -- The presidential disability of Woodrow Wilson -- The asthmatic life of Marcel Proust -- The lingering cough of D.H. Lawrence -- The ocular history of James Joyce -- A medicalprofile of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Sigmund Freud's ordeal -- When Clarence Darrow had an earache -- Paul Gauguin: a medical portrait -- George Gershwin's fatal headache -- The last year of Enrico Caruso