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By Richard Selzer. 118 pp. New York, Penguin Books, 1993. $17.50. ISBN 0-670-85414-X.

Early in the 19th century, Fanny Burney, one of the most noted novelists of her day, felt a lump in her breast. It persisted. Eventually, she underwent a mastectomy, with all the travail that the medical care of the period involved. She received little advance notice of the surgery, which would have spared her much anxiety in its anticipation. Later, she wrote a novelistic account of her experience. Richard Selzer tells us this story in the first part of Raising the Dead.

Late in the 20th century, Richard Selzer, a surgeon and author, fell ill with legionnaires' disease. Like Burney, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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