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"The books and the night", neurological perspective on Jorge Luis Borges' blindness

Castillo-Torres, Sergio A; Garza-Marichalar, José G; Soto-Rincón, Carlos A; Cantú-García, Diego A; Estrada-Bellmann, Ingrid E; Chávez-Luévanos, Beatriz E.

Gac. méd. Méx; 155 (5), 2019

The works of Argentinian scholar Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) have captivated physicians. An assiduous reader, he was given, with magnificent irony, "books and the night". Borges suffered from chronic and irreversible blindness, which influenced much of his work and has been the subject of different lit...

Argentina, Autobiografías como Asunto, Ceguera/etiología, Ceguera/historia, Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/complicaciones, Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/historia, Personajes, Poesía como Asunto/historia, Escritura/historia

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Henrique Dumont: how a traumatic brain injury contributed to the development of the airplane

Demartini Jr, Zeferino; Gatto, Luana A Maranha; Lages, Roberto Oliver; Koppe, Gelson Luis.

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 77 (1), 2019

ABSTRACT The life and death of Henrique Dumont (1832-1892) is little known, being usually remembered as Alberto Santos-Dumont's father. This report describes the history of this Brazilian engineer, also known as the King of Coffee, who achieved enormous business success and fortune in the late nineteenth...

Aeronaves/historia, Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/historia, Brasil, Francia, Paris

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