Dracula’s Pellagra and Lois Lane’s Lungs: Further Gleanings From the Medical Literature
by Christopher D. McManus Silver Spring, Maryland
Laypeople, many of whom are laypersons, mistakenly think that medical researchers care only about real people and their diseases. Not so. Maladies of fictional characters are the focus of a large body of medical literature. Of course, one expects some analysis of the maladies of Lear, Don Quixote, Medea, [...]
