Tales of old mortality

This week’s column in the BMJ:

John Gibson Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott is often said to be the second greatest literary biography in English, (long) after Boswell, of course. At the beginning of the work is a short memoir of his early life by Scott himself, which is of considerable medical interest…

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