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Wiltshire starts with a review of Johnson's own medical history: juvenile scrofula, poor vision in one eye, the famous “tics and gesticulations,” gout, asthma, a stroke with transient aphasia, and finally “dropsy” with death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease with congestive failure.
In further chapters Wiltshire sets forth considerable useful information about medicine in 18th century England, its theories, its mode of practice.
What a pleasure it is to report that John Wiltshire of Melbourne's account of Samuel Johnson and the medical aspects of his life is just the sort of exposition and analysis that this reviewer once considered writing and that Wiltshire has done it better and on a broader canvas.
But on balance Wiltshire's book is sound and sensible, a distinguished contribution not only to Johnsonia but to the wider field of eighteenth-century studies.
Wiltshire makes full use of Johnson's own writing, especially the essays in The Rambler and The Idler , to analyze Johnson's frequent, almost habitual use of medical ideas as metaphors.