![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the 10 book chapters is devoted to a single writer. In Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough, Ross, an internal medicine and infectious disease physician, broadens his roster of “patients” to include not only Shakespeare and Orwell, but also 8 other literary greats. Ross then published a second article that proposed a unifying diagnosis for George Orwell's chronic respiratory illnesses and apparent infertility. He delved further into the subject, and his research resulted in an article published in this journal, “Shakespeare's Chancre: Did the Bard Have Syphilis?” in which he examines the possibility that the tremulous handwriting and social withdrawal noted in Shakespeare's later life might have been the adverse result of mercury treatment for the dreaded pox. Ross was struck by the number of references to venereal disease. ![]() While searching through a Shakespeare anthology for quotations to accompany an academic talk on syphilis, John J. ![]()
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