“…Examples for each category abound; for the first one, one may find examples ranging from the lyrical cries for deliverance from disease present in King David's fortyfirst psalm [5], in the 10th century BC, to Stendhal (1783-1842), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), and Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), all victims of stroke leading to aphasia [6]; for the second one, one may be reminded of William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) enormous canvases of mental illness, epilepsy, and congenital abnormalities [7], among others, or Thomas Mann's (1875-1955) exquisite characters struggling with cholera, neurosyphilis, and tuberculosis [8]; for the third one, consider Ovid's (43 BC-17/18 AD) mention of surgery in book I of his Metamorphoses, in 8 AD [9], Geoffrey Chaucer's (circa 1,340-1,400) Canterbury Tales and his considerations on the still quasi mystical medicine of his age [10], and Thomas Stearns Eliot's (1888-1965) recurring images of nerves, brains, or skulls [11]. In short, many authors have been drawn toward the realms of disease and medicine and have sought ways to describe, deal with, or interpret the sufferings and pains borne from them.…”