Telling the FleshIn the second half of the eighteenth century, celebrated Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728 1797) received over 1,200 medical consultation letters from across Europe and beyond. Written by individuals seeking respite from a range of ailments, these letters offer valuable insight into the nature of physical suffering. Plaintive, desperate, querulous, fearful, frustrated, and sometimes arrogant and self interested in tone, the letters to Tissot