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

Forensic doctor shows "how medical information and insights can illuminate and perhaps resolve certain literary problems". The essays incluude Plato's account of Socrates' death, John Keats use of opium, madness of several poets,how D,H, Lawrence's illness and psychosexual conflicts affected his last novel. "Mischievously humorous"