James Joyce: steps towards a diagnosis.
Authors whose scholarship is in the golden realm of English literature have not hesitated to make pronouncements on James Joyce's health. A publication in this genre claims he had tabes dorsalis. One feels that an authoritative comment, accepting or rejecting a diagnosis of neurosyphilis, should be provided by the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.
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Department of the History of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, Dublin.
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