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Re: A Dr.Botkin,
the enema tube and a poet's lyre in connection to Chekhov
the enema tube and a poet's lyre in connection to Chekhov
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Jansy Mello <jansy.nabokv-L@aetern.us>wrote:
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>
> "In November 1889 *The Northern Herald* saved itself from extinction by
> printing Chekhov's 'A Dreary Story'. The work made a tremendous impact.
> Chekhov had found a voice and a viewpoint in his disillusioned professor of
> medicine [ ] The Petersburg Professor of Medicine, Botkin, died of liver
> cancer that winter, and Chekhov's work seemed prophetic [ ] Anton proudly
> inscribed a copy to the playwright Prince Sumbatov:
>
>
...
> Have you also noticed that there is a Petersburg Professor of Medicine
> named Botkin - informing that Chekhov's "A Dreary Story" was considered to
> be prophetic of the other doctor's death? A Nabokovian kind of
> literary "Leitmotiv", you think?????
>
Sergey Botkin (or S.P. Botkin, son of Eugene Botkin, another prominent
Petersburg Professor) gave his name to "Botkin's Disease", or viral
hepatitis (due to his work on its transmissibility, not because he died of
that particular failure of the liver). His cause of death is often given
as "liver disease", or some combination of that and heart disease; he may
well have died of* *liver *cancer*, as above. A little unfortunate, either
way.
Take care,
Moe
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> **
>
> "In November 1889 *The Northern Herald* saved itself from extinction by
> printing Chekhov's 'A Dreary Story'. The work made a tremendous impact.
> Chekhov had found a voice and a viewpoint in his disillusioned professor of
> medicine [ ] The Petersburg Professor of Medicine, Botkin, died of liver
> cancer that winter, and Chekhov's work seemed prophetic [ ] Anton proudly
> inscribed a copy to the playwright Prince Sumbatov:
>
>
...
> Have you also noticed that there is a Petersburg Professor of Medicine
> named Botkin - informing that Chekhov's "A Dreary Story" was considered to
> be prophetic of the other doctor's death? A Nabokovian kind of
> literary "Leitmotiv", you think?????
>
Sergey Botkin (or S.P. Botkin, son of Eugene Botkin, another prominent
Petersburg Professor) gave his name to "Botkin's Disease", or viral
hepatitis (due to his work on its transmissibility, not because he died of
that particular failure of the liver). His cause of death is often given
as "liver disease", or some combination of that and heart disease; he may
well have died of* *liver *cancer*, as above. A little unfortunate, either
way.
Take care,
Moe
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