Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Nikolai Korotkov

  • Korotkov’s Sound

    Joseph deBettencourt Chicago, Illinois, United States     A portrait of Nikolai Sergeevich Korotkov I’m watching, knees bending, Looking meek, my heart quiet, Drifting away are the shadows Of fussy world affairs While I’m envisioning, dreaming of voices from other worlds -Aleksandr Blok, untitled poem, July 3, 1901a   Stepping off the train in northern…

  • The First Russian Revolution: 1905–1913

    Philip R. LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States Within the years 1905-1913, three figures associated with the Imperial Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg presented papers that provided the stepping-stones for the study of two major conditions leading to cardiovascular disease—hypertension and atherosclerosis. They created the seeds of a revolution that outlasted the more famous revolution of…