1. A Medical Appraisal of the Brontës
2. Gallagher H.W. ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Surgeon’s Assessment’,Brontë Society Transactions, 18 (1985), 363–70; J. A. Fitzgerald, ‘Death of Elderly Primigravida in Early Pregnancy. Charlotte Brontë’,New York State Journal of Medicine, 79 (1979), 796–99. For tuberculosis with secondary Addison’s disease, see G. Weiss, ‘The Death of Charlotte Brontë’,Obstetrics and Gynecology, 78 (1991), 705–08. For typhoid, see L. Gordon,Charlotte Bronte. A Passionate Life(London: Virago, 2008), pp. 356–58; henceforward, Gordon.
3. The Periodic Depression of Charlotte Brontë
4. A brief account of CB’s headaches is given in A. J. Larner, ‘Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855): migraineur?’,European Journal of Neurology, 16 Suppl. 3 (2009), 329. A reading of CB’s letters also informs A. J. Larner, ‘Kilvert and cholera’,Journal of the Kilvert Society, 28 (2009), 22–23.
5. The Global Burden of Headache: A Documentation of Headache Prevalence and Disability Worldwide