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CONTENTS
1. Beginning to Read: Some Methods and Background
2. Reading Medically: Novel Illnesses, Novel Cures
3. Vernacular Curiosities: Medical Entertainments and Memory
4. Diseases of Sex: Medical and Literary Views of Contagion and Retribution
5. Diseases of Qing: Medical and Literary Views of Depletion
6. Contagious Texts: Inherited Maladies and the Invention of Tuberculosis