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Born body and soul into the Romantic era, Hector Berlioz found beauty in the wonder of music. His parents were more practically minded and, as the son of a physician, he was encouraged towards a career in medicine.
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Burch, D. (2017). The Beauty of Bodysnatching. In: Roe, N. (eds) John Keats and the Medical Imagination. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63811-9_3
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