title: Seeing medicine through opera glasses.
abstract: Few opera buffs stop to consider how the illnesses suffered by opera's great heroes and heroines mirrored the medical treatments and public attitudes of their time. A Toronto physician and his wife, an English professor and literary critic, have written a book exploring how opera presents illnesses such as tuberculosis and syphilis.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Mason
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000266:history; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009146:Music / Q000266:history*; D012907:Smoking / Q000266:history; D013587:Syphilis / Q000266:history; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000266:history