An Australian physician asks how far the actions of famous people were driven by the state of their bodies. In a series of medical essays he considers the pregnancies of Anne Boleyn, the voices of Joan of Arc, the Empress Theodora, the gout of Charles V, Don John of Austria and Cervantes, the hardened arteries of Philip II, and the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Pepys.
Lively historical diagnosis for anyone who enjoys history read through the doctor’s eyes; the medicine is that of the 1920s. Download the free EPUB.