TY - JOUR T1 - Seeing medicine through opera glasses JF - Canadian Medical Association Journal JO - CMAJ SP - 921 LP - 923 VL - 154 IS - 6 AU - R. B. Mason Y1 - 1996/03/15 UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/154/6/921.abstract N2 - Few opera buffs stop to consider how the illnesses suffered by opera's great heroes and heroines mirrored the medical treatments and public attitudes of their time. A Toronto physician and his wife, an English professor and literary critic, have written a book exploring how opera presents illnesses such as tuberculosis and syphilis. ER -