William Wilkie Collins: la medicina como un medio para enriquecer la creación de la literatura de ficción.

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WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS: MEDICINE  AS AN AID  FOR ENRICHING THE CREATION OF FICTION  LITERATURE

 William Wilkie Collins (WWC) is a well-known prolific and innovator English writer of the  Victorian age. After 150 years he is still being extensively read and all his main works are translated  into  Spanish. Furthermore,  WWC  has been  acclaimed by  famous critics such as JL Borges and T.S. Eliot as one of the best story-tellers of all times,  and a master of the complexities of the plot of stories. WWC mentioned  on his works many innovator aspects of medicine,  demonstrating an uncanny power of observation and real interest in science. Notoriously, WWC described posttraumatic  epilepsy,  the clinical effects of opium, the introduction of people with sensorial  deficits, such as  blindness and deafness, as main figures  in his novels.  WWC  also  showed   an interest in the management of  mental disorders and the use  of music as a potential therapy. In this review, we comment these  interesting aspects  of the  creative work of this  genius of the fiction literature.