Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Brill-Zinsser disease

  • The illness and death of Jane Austen

    The final years of Jane Austen were overshadowed by a mysterious illness that has long since been a subject of speculation and debate. Her health began to decline in early 1816, when she was around forty years old. Her letters from that period make occasional references to fatigue and bouts of illness, but she tended…