Phantom Limbs and Moby Dick

Twelve years later, Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, a "doctor of nerves" at Turner's Lane hospital in Pennsylvania, noticed that many of his soliders injured during the Battle of Gettysburg displayed a strange set of symptoms: After their ...

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