By Robert Wilkins
The writer & physician chronicles the influence of lethal illnesses on participants, countries and the advance of heritage. now not loads of observe have been taken through historians of the wear which could were brought on by the selections made through mad monarchs or syphilitic statesmen. one hundred fifty years in the past, Victorian ladies deemed tuberculosis as sexually impossible to resist, and it used to be concept that syphilis, epilepsy, morphine habit or insanity elevated the likelihoods of being a genius. Bursting with anecdotes, the ebook is amplified with sixty five illustrations – with a few irritating images!
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