The Common Touch

A Doctor’s Diverting Look at Fourteen Famous Patients

by J H Leavesley

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983, ISBN 0642974551, black and white illustrations, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription on half title page, uncreased spine, introductory pages loose (see photographs)

“Dr Jim Leavesley, a medical practitioner form Perth, Western Australia, broadcast a series of programs on ABC Radio’s The Body Program, dealing with the illnesses of some famous patients.  His entertaining accounts of these men and women from the past have been gathered together in this book which looks at how the patients dealt with their ailments and the way they affected the course of history.”