so i ran 18 miles thismorning, and i'm wearing heels. so i want lots ofapplause at the end. thank you. [applause] so i'm in the americanstudies department, which is something of a-- it'sa very interdisciplinary field. and i use the kinds of insightsfrom history, from literature, and from medicalscience to think about a particulardiagnosis that was in use fromroughly the civil war until world war i. it'scalled irritable heart. and the way that i findout about this illness, the way i learn about notjust the way physicians talked about it, but what patientsunderstood about it is by using pension records. these records come fromthe national archives. and they tell incredible storiesabout civil war soldiers, some of whom were at the frontfor only a few weeks, others who were at the front forthe duration of the war and then went west afterwards. these records include everythingfrom individual medical care to pulses to familystories that can tell us something about what ...
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