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Galdós and Medicine, Paperback by Stannard, Michael W., Brand New, Free shipp.... Galdós and Medicine, Paperback by Stannard, Michael W., ISBN 3034318251, ISBN-13 9783034318259, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Nineteenth-century Spanish realist novelist Benito Prez Galds was well-read in medicine as well as literature. This literary study looks at the realistic clinical descriptions of illness and medical practice in his novels and shows how they reflect the medical knowledge of the time. Th begins with an overview of medical practice and the role of doctors in Galds’s Madrid and the medical discoveries made across his lifetime (1). Subsequent chapters are devoted to specific conditions: epidemics, endemic diseases, alcoholism, madness, eye diseases and blindness, and childhood diseases. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()