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Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

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  • On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher
  • Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat epilepsy with ice
  • of heat or cold to the spine over long periods. Chapman wasnt the first medical practitioner
  • of vomiting and seeking another opinion, Darwin wrote to ChapmanOn the day that Chapman visited, …
  • Darwin began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865. In his letter to Chapman of 7 June 1865, he reported
  • week of July, he had evidently given up the treatment (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. …
  • goutby Henry Holland in 1849 ( Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 6 February [1849]). …
  • by William Brinton, William Jenner, and George Busk (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1865], …
  • 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November 1863] …
  • with dietary restrictions (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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  • … Sunday afternoons, when they received visitors (23 March 1873; Emma described his visit in a letter
  • … younger daughter, Bessy, did call on a Saturday in October 1873 but the Leweses were away. As a …
  • … this happened (Emma Darwin to Horace Darwin, [14 October 1873], DAR 258: 547b). Early the following …
  • … it too hot and left before the manifestations started ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
  • … (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and Charles Darwin’s letter to Francis Darwin, [1 May 1876] ). …