Jonathan Swift y su contribución científica en "Los viajes de Gulliver"
Jonathan Swift is one of the most celebrated satirist writers in literature. His well-known "Gulliver's Travels", apartfrom being a serious human being criticism, contains many interesting ana unrecognized comments about medical and other scientific facts. Swift made what seems to be thefirst account of a dementing illness in the elderly; his description fits well with what we now know as Alzheimer's disease. He also described a condition now called synaesthesia, a very interestingphenomenon that may contribute to creativity. In thispaper, we review aspects ofhis Ufe and reveal these amazing descriptions as samples of Swift's extraordinary power of observation.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | Spanish / Castilian |
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Sociedad Médica de Santiago
2011
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872011000300018 |
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