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Norman Cousins’ Anatomy of an Illness 1 ought to be required reading for historians of pre-modern medicine. Cousins was diagnosed with a collagen illness, a disease of the connective tissue. He had, especially, ankylosing spondylitis, a disease of the spine which would bring about its disintegration. The prognosis was grave – literally so, and soon. Cousins discharged himself from hospital and moved into a hotel. There, he embarked on a prolonged, and eventually successful, therapy of his own devising. He arranged to be drip-fed massive doses of Vitamin C to build up his resistance. He also watched Marx Brothers videos. “Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter ...,” he writes, “would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.”
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