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What Caused the Author of Moby Dick to Shrink an Inch and a Half?

The History of Medicine

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John J. Ross, MD, instructor at Harvard Medical School, author of Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough: Medical Lives of Famous Writers, discusses the medical history of Herman Melville and his diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis.

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