Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough : the medical lives of great writers / John J. Ross, M.D.

The hardest knife ill-used : Shakespeare's tremor
Exil'd from light : the blindness of John Milton
Dying from the top down : The dementia of Jonathan Swift
Some sweet poisoned breeze had passed into her lungs : the Brontës and tuberculosis
Dismal labyrinth of doubt : the strange death of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Perilous outpost of the sane : the many maladies of Herman Melville
Sex and the dead : brucellosis, arsenic and William Butler Yeats
Medical misadventures of an amateur M.D. : Jack London's death by hubris
An infamous private ailment : the venereal afflictions of James Joyce
"The disease which was bound to claim me sooner or later" : Orwell's cough.