Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, J. M. W. Turner and Hans Heyerdahl. A New York neurologist reads the writers of his day as a physician reads patients: James Joyce, Dostoevsky, Dorothy Richardson, Proust, Katherine Mansfield and Rebecca West, Stella Benson and Virginia Woolf, the diarists Barbellion and Amiel, Duhamel and D. H. Lawrence. Joseph Collins had reviewed Ulysses for the New York Times in 1922, and this book of 1923 carries the same mixture of admiration and clinical alarm. The method is dated and the judgements are startling, which is exactly why the book is worth reading now. Fifty-nine plates, from Thomas Eakins to Adolph von Menzel, turn the same clinical gaze on the body in portraits, tooth transplants and doctors at the bedside.