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From Patient to Writer--William Ernest Henley--(1849-1903)
- Age 12 foot amputated due to TB
- Labeled a "cripple" by the Victorians
- One of five children of a bookseller
- 1873 he was a patient of the famous Professor Lister whose hand cranked carbolic antiseptic apparatus disrupted the ward with noise
- "over the hiss of the spray, comes a low cry"
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