Blogging the Human Genome

At least with Lincoln, geneticists have an idea of what to look for. Not so with Charles Darwin?he remains a medical enigma. After returning from the Beagle voyage and marrying, Darwin deteriorated into a wheezing wreck. He suffered from boils, fainting fits, heart flutters, numb fingers, insomnia, migraines, dizziness, eczema, and ?fiery spokes and dark clouds? before his eyes. The strangest symptom was a ringing in the ears, after which he?d always pass horrendous gas. But above all Darwin barfed. He barfed after breakfast, after lunch, after dinner, brunch, tea, whenever?and kept going until he was dry-heaving. In peak form he vomited 20 times an hour, and once vomited 27 days running. Mental exertion invariably made his stomach worse, and even Darwin, the most intellectually fecund biologist ever, could make no sense of this. ?What thought has to do with digesting roast beef,? he once sighed, ?I cannot say.?

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