Susanna Moodie: Pioneer Author By Anne Cimon Mazo de la Roche: Rich and Famous Writer By Heather Kirk

"A glorious madness": Susanna Moodie and the spiritualist movement.

The essay is divided into three major sections. The middle contains three letters written by Susanna Moodie in Belleville in the late 1850s to Richard Bentley, her English publisher. These detail her growing interest in and resistance to the spiritualist movement, an interest which culminates in her active involvement, described in the final letter. Section I provides information about the move...

Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy.

Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Etude sur la digestion pancratique de la caseine pour la production de la toxine tetanique

Benedetto Reguardati: author of Ugo Benzi's "Tractato de la Conservatione de la Sanitade".

THE Tractato utilissimo circa la conservatione de la sanitade is described by D. P. Lockwood1 as 'one of the earliest Italian medical works in the vernacular' to which 'Ugo now owes his chief distinction in the history of medicine'. No manuscript of this treatise exists, it was not mentioned in the Latin Vita Ugonis written about 1441 by his eldest son Soccino Benzi (1406-79), also a physician,...

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