Biomaterial Database

Blinking Sam: the ocular afflictions of Dr. Samuel Johnson. 2004

Graham A Wilson, and James G Ravin

Nelson Hospital, Nelson, New Zealand.

The poor health of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) has fascinated the public for more than 200 years. The illnesses of few famous men, with the possible exception of Napoleon, have attracted more speculation. Johnson was an outstanding 18th-century literary figure, an essayist, novelist, and poet, and is particularly famous as the creator of the first important dictionary of the English language. His writings and those of his physicians and friends, particularly his biographer, James Boswell, provide an intimate account of a cultural icon.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008093	Literature, Modern	Writings originating from the 15th century A.D. to the present	Modern Literature
D008297	Male		Males
D004014	Dictionaries as Topic	Works about reference books containing words and their meaning.	Glossaries as Topic,Dictionaries as Topics,Glossaries as Topics
D005128	Eye Diseases	Diseases affecting the eye.	Eye Disorders,Eye Disease,Eye Disorder
D005197	Famous Persons	Individuals widely known or recognized.	Famous Person,Persons, Famous
D006113	United Kingdom	Country in northwestern Europe including Great Britain and the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland, located between the North Sea and north Atlantic Ocean. The capital is London.	Great Britain,Isle of Man
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014388	Tuberculosis, Lymph Node	Infection of the lymph nodes by tuberculosis. Tuberculous infection of the cervical lymph nodes is scrofula.	Cervical Tuberculous Lymphadenitis,Lymphadenitis, Tuberculous,Mycobacterial Cervical Lymphadenitis,Scrofula,Cervical Lymphadenitis, Mycobacterial,Lymph Node Tuberculoses,Lymph Node Tuberculosis,Lymphadenitis, Cervical Tuberculous,Lymphadenitis, Mycobacterial Cervical,Scrofulas,Tuberculoses, Lymph Node,Tuberculous Lymphadenitis,Tuberculous Lymphadenitis, Cervical
D049671	History, 18th Century	Time period from 1701 through 1800 of the common era.	18th Century History,18th Cent. History (Medicine),18th Cent. History of Medicine,18th Cent. Medicine,Historical Events, 18th Century,History of Medicine, 18th Cent.,History, Eighteenth Century,Medical History, 18th Cent.,Medicine, 18th Cent.,18th Century Histories,Cent. History, 18th (Medicine),Cent. Medicine, 18th,Century Histories, 18th,Century Histories, Eighteenth,Century History, 18th,Century History, Eighteenth,Eighteenth Century Histories,Eighteenth Century History,Histories, 18th Century,Histories, Eighteenth Century,History, 18th Cent. (Medicine)