The Body in the Library
Subtitle: A Literary History of Modern Medicine
Publisher: Verso
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781859845349
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; History of medicine; Medicine; Special Subjects In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Social medicine; Medicine in literature; General; History; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Collected works; Literary Collections
First sentence: One winter's evening towards the close of the year 1800, or within a year or two of that time, a young medical practitioner, recently established in business, was seated by a cheerful fire in his little parlour, listening to the wind which was beating the rain in pattering drops against the window, and rumbling dismally in the chimney.