13 Famous Patients

13 Famous Patients provides a fascinating insight into how Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Mohandas Gandhi, Woodrow Wilson, Marcel Proust, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Clarence Darrow, Paul Gauguin, George Gershwin and Enrico Caruso all dealt with illness.The present edition was first published in 1960.'THIS is a book about an unsung hero-that often forgotten and yet most important figure in medicine called the patient. [...] More precisely, this is a book about thirteen famous patients who faced their ailments with courage or fear, with hope or despair, with tenacity or resignation.'-Dr. Noah Daniel