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Laurence Sterne
Novelist Laurence Sterne, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
During his time at Jesus College, Cambridge, Laurence Sterne suffered his first severe hemorrhage of the lungs, which was a symptom of the tuberculosis he had contracted and which remained incurable throughout his life.1