Darwin's Battle with Anxiety | The Marginalian

“For 25 years extreme spasmodic daily & nightly flatulence: occasional vomiting, on two occasions prolonged during months. Vomiting preceded by shivering, hysterical crying[,] dying sensations or half-faint. & copious very palid urine.”

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Photograph of Charles Darwin taken around 1874 by Leonard Darwin.Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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