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Syndrome de Lasthénie de Ferjol, Krishna G. Badami

Learning about children, Canon Brodar

Samuel Mudd MD: Good Samaritan or conspirator?, Kevin R. Loughlin

Women in medicine: the trial of Jacoba Felicie de Almania, Mariel Tishma

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and smallpox, JMS Pearce

Have we learned anything from 1918-1919 influenza?, Edward Winslow

Use of masks to control the spread of infection, Jayant Radhakrishnan

“Scarlet letters”—the depiction of scarlet fever in literature, Emily Boyle

Rheumatic fever, Amogh BJ, Nanditha Venkatesan

Doctor Johnson and his ailments, George Dunea

George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War: A brush with death, James L. Franklin

The Yellow Wallpaper: the flawed prescription, Mahek Khwaja

The two nightingales, Inga Lewenhaupt, Einar Perman

Harvey Cushing: Surgeon, Author, Soldier, Historian, John Raffensperger

Richard J. Bing: creativity and innovation, Joseph Burns, Yehuda Shapir

The first description of DNA: a six million dollar letter, Marshall A. Lichtman

From woodpeckers to Auenbrugger, James L. Franklin

The hospital that treated patients with music, L. J. Sandlow

Vignettes and Briefs

Unnamed surgeon

Hospital at Arles – Van Gogh, 1889

The wax models of Clemente Susini (1752-1814)

Opening the left ventricle

Why are most babies born at night?

Ether dome

Florence Nightingale at Scutari

Monkeys as barber-surgeons

Hippocrates by the bedside

Reading should be a pleasure, not a burden

Beginnings of bedside teaching in Padua: Montanus

Origins of the Pap smear

Moral lessons through pictures

Fleas in art and medicine

Cholera in France 1859

Andrea del Sarto – plague in Florence

Four Women Dancing

Mahler’s endocarditis and broken heart, Michael Yafi