Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Susan Brunn Puett

  • Santa Margherita da Cortona

    Susan Brunn PuettJ. David PuettChapel Hill, North Carolina, United States From humble beginnings to years as a mistress, Margherita altered her path to become a tertiary Franciscan penitent, attending the ill and poor, founding a hospital, and devoting herself to Christ. She was in the vanguard of several other women of the late Middle Ages…

  • Partners in healing: An early renaissance painting depicting the partnership of the divine with the physicians Cosmas and Damian

    Susan Brunn PuettJ. David PuettChapel Hill, North Carolina, United States In many cultures the practice of healing was perceived as a combined effort by physicians and the divine. Florentine Renaissance hospitals had churches and cloisters in their complexes where displayed works of art reminded patients and their families of God’s curing powers. Meant to invoke…

  • The Florentine Renaissance apothecary

    Susan Brunn Puett Chapel Hill, NC, USA J. David Puett Athens, GA / Chapel Hill, NC   Fig. 1: Copies of two pages from the 1597 edition of the Ricettario fiorentino di nuovo illustrato. Left panel: Frontispiece. Right panel: Page 72 showing saffron (zafferano)as one of the included ingredients. From the Swiss electronic library of…