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Official Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Official Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1879
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1887
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1572

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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House documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1562

House documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Authors and Subjects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1084

Authors and Subjects

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 684
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 874
Suffering Scholars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Suffering Scholars

As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until the eighteenth century that the phenomenon known as the "suffering scholar" reached its apotheosis, a phenomenon illustrated by the popularity of works such as Samuel-Auguste Tissot's De la santé des gens de lettres, first published in 1768. Though hardly limited to French-speaking Europe, the link between mental endeavor and physical disorder was embraced with particular vigor there, as was the te...

Author Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 968

Author Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1873
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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