Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Pere Goriot

  • The last illness of Père Goriot

    “It is all up with him, or I am much mistaken! Something very extraordinary must have taken place; he looks to me as if he were in imminent danger of serous apoplexy. The lower part of his face is composed enough, but the upper part is drawn and distorted. Then there is that peculiar look…