Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2004)

The Medical Kipling—Syphilis, Tabes Dorsalis, and Romberg’s Test

  • Setu K. Vora,
  • Robert W. Lyons

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1006.031117
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 6
pp. 1160 – 1162

Abstract

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Born of expatriate parents in Bombay, India, in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He received this honor when he was not yet 42 years old. Indeed, Kipling’s career is remarkable for its precocious success. His collection of verse Departmental Ditties was published when he was 20 years old. When he first went to England in 1889, he was already a well-known writer.

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