Boswell's Clap and Other Essays: Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions

1988 Harper & Row trade paperback, 0060971878. Witty examination by pathologist Dr. William B. Ober discusses commonly accepted diagnoses of literary giants such as Boswell, Keats,D.H. Lawrence, Checkov, William Carlos Williams & the death of Socrates as told by Plato and gives them a new slant using modern research.