Post Mortems Two: Mere Mortals: Medico-Historical Essays

by Charles MacLaurin

Length
6h 37m
Chapters
20
Language
English

This 1925 collection of extensive essays (a second book following the first of similar title) comprises well written biographies of a few famous folk. The life narratives include analyses of medical and/or psychological elements in each person’s life. Biographies include Samuel Johnson, King Henry VI, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Mary Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I, Ivan The Terrible, Martin Luther, Henry Fielding King James I (VI), King Charles I, King Charles II, Catherine of Braganza, Nell Gwynn, Henri Quatre, Marguerite de Valois, Frederick The Great, The Children’s Crusade, Some Epidemics Of Social Importance, F.W. Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Baruch Spinoza. “But there were far more …

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