palpitations, fainting spells, and spots before his eyes (Chapter 5:
Physicians and Scientists, Pages 104-114)
-- Alfred Tennyson - (poet), petit mal seizures and a nervous breakdown
(Chapter 3: Literary Greats, Page 80)
-- George Bernard Shaw - (playwright), hydrocele (Chapter 3: Literary
Greats, Pages 77-78)
-- Washington Irving - (author), asthma, recurrent dizziness, and chronic
headaches (Chapter 3: Literary Greats, Pages 70-71)
-- Richard Wagner - (composer and conductor), typhoid (saved his life)
(Chapter 7: Musicians, Pages 159-160)
-- General George B. McClellan - (head of the Union Army during the U.S.
Civil War), typhoid (Chapter 9: Politicians and Peacemakers, Pages
184-185)
-- Benjamin Disraeli - (British Prime Minister), asthma and gout (Chapter
9: Politicians and Peacemakers, Pages 199-200)
-- Harold Griffith, MD - (one of the fathers of modern anesthesia),
diphtheria (Chapter 5: Physicians and Scientists, Pages 122-124)
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