Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Joseph Goldberger

  • Pellagra: A medical whodunit

    Putzer J. HungSaint Louis, Missouri, United States “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?”– Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet Beginning in 1902, a strange epidemic struck the southern United States. Victims, often women and children of…