Coleridge’s dreaming gut: Digestion, genius, hypochondria

Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion, and Fat in the Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 105-126

  Rousseau, George ^a  

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2. John Hill in Centaury, The Great Stomachic…. (London: R. Baldwin, 1765).
3. Griggs, CL, 1: xxxv.
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5. Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989), 15.
6. Walter Jackson Bate, Coleridge (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), 102.
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13. STC to Poole, 24 March 1801, CL, 2: 710.
14. STC to Poole, 3 October 1803, CL, 2: 1010.
15. STC to Poole, 14 October 1803, CL, 2: 1013.
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31. STC to Poole, 5 November 1796, CL, 1: 250.
32. STC to George Coleridge, November 1791, CL, 1: 18.
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34. STC to Cottle, 26 April 1814, CL, 3: 477.
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40. 1806, CL, 2: 1200.
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50. STC to Beaumont, 2 February 1804, CL, 2: 1053 (emphasis in original).
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52. Starcevic, "Clinical Features," 30.
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