WWQR > Vol. 1 (1983) > No. 3
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Abstract
Explores Whitman's descriptions of nude sun-bathing in Specimen Days and shows how the poet was influenced by "a variant of the therapeutic air cures and camp cures prescribed by his distinguished physician Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and by other doctors in the 1870s and 1880s."
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Copyright © 1984 The University of Iowa
Recommended Citation
Aspiz, Harold. "Specimen Days: The Therapeutics of Sun-Bathing." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1 (1983), 48-50.
Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1033