Tenements of clay : an anthology of medical biographical essays / chosen and edited by Arnold Sorsby.

London : Julian Friedmann, 1974.

258 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Noah, an albino / Arnold Sorsby -- Job's illness: pellagra / Charles J. Brim -- The medical problems of Henry VIII / Ove Brinch -- Shakespeare's skull and brain / Sir Arthur Keith -- The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's handwriting / R. W. Leftwich -- Milton's blindness / Arnold Sorsby -- Swift's deafness and his last illness / T. G. Wilson -- Samuel Johnson's medical experiences / Sir Humphrey Rolleston -- The insanity of George III: a classic case of porphyria / Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter -- Historical implications of porphyria / John Brooke -- Jane Austen's last illness / Sir Zachary Cope -- Beethoven's deafness / Maurice Sorsby -- The illness and death of Napoleon / Arnold Chaplin -- Darwin's health in relation to his voyage to South America / A. W. Woodruff -- Abraham Lincoln's Marfan syndrome / Harold Schwartz.

Includes bibliographical references.