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At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
- Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett, 6 March 1806, Coxhoe, County Durham, England
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15 de feb. de 2021 · After being diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness, Barrett Browning was forced to live in isolation. Her response offers great insights into how to cope, writes her biographer
Born in 1806, Barrett Browning suffered throughout her life from incapacitating weakness, heart palpitations, intense response to heat and cold, intense response to illnesses as mild as a cold, and general exhaustion in bouts that lasted from days to months or years.
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The Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning suffered for most of her life from an illness that her physicians were never able to diagnose, and that Barrett Browning scholars and others have tried to diagnose since her death in 1861. Many suggestions have been offered, but none has been convincing.
19 de dic. de 2011 · "Conjectures by modern biographers about Barrett Browning's condition include anorexia nervosa, neurasthenia; tuberculosis; pertussis, an encephalomyelitis; non-paralytic poliomyelitis;...
19 de dic. de 2011 · "Conjectures by modern biographers about Barrett Browning's condition include anorexia nervosa, neurasthenia; tuberculosis; pertussis, an encephalomyelitis; non-paralytic poliomyelitis; paralytic...
Despite suffering from a debilitating illness for the majority of her life, doctors could never pinpoint the cause of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s suffering. She would get extreme head and spinal pain, and over time her mobility reduced. She would take a number of opiates to ease the pain.