October, 2019 - Hektoen International

It is good to be the king: the French surgical revolution

October 31, 2019

Julius Bonello Ayesha Hasan Peoria, Illinois, United States Charles-François Tassy, Source: Wiki A belief held by the common people is that it is good to be royalty, a sentiment supported by descriptions in novels and depictions in movies. The best food, the finest clothes, and the most extravagant and opulent dwelling in the kingdom […]

Medicinal leeches in art and literature

October 28, 2019

Martin Duke Mystic, Connecticut, United States Figure 1. Woman applying a leech to her forearm. A large jar containing leeches is next to her. Belgium woodcut by Guillaume van den Bossche, 1639: National Library of Medicine Unique ID: 2315020R. For more than two thousand years, the extraordinary blood-sucking abilities of the medicinal leech (Hirudo […]

of little significance

October 28, 2019

Vamsi Reddy Keri Jones Augusta, Georgia, United States VAMSI REDDY is a third-year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. He completed his undergraduate education at Augusta University in the inaugural class of the BS/MD accelerated medical program. Vamsi enjoys the beauty which pervades through the medical field and has taken to […]

The psychological impact of facial injury in the First World War: outcomes from the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup

October 28, 2019

Andrew Bamji Rye, East Sussex, UK Figure 1. Aerial view of the Queen’s Hospital, c.1920. The operating theatres are in the horseshoe to the left centre of the photograph. Figure 2. The Plastic Theatre. Modern warfare, and in particular the use of artillery employed against entrenched troops in the First World War, resulted […]

From here

October 28, 2019

Rasa Rafie Colorado, United States Copies after Illustrations of Statues and Paintings (recto); Measurements for a Man’s Skeleton (verso). After Gerard de Lairesse. N.d. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain. In college, we were the top of our class, the winners of scholarships and awards, the leaders of campus organizations. We were the […]

Preparing for the unexpected

October 28, 2019

Anthony Papagiannis Thessaloniki, Greece Sunset in Halkidiki, Greece, Fall 2019. Photo by Anthony Papagiannis. Working in specialist medical practice one is familiar with the spectrum of clinical problems likely to appear in one’s regular professional menu. However, it is common knowledge that unexpected situations do occur: the human body and being is complex and […]

Theme

October 28, 2019

AMERICAN HEART PIONEERS Published in November, 2019 H E K T O R A M A . ALFRED BLALOCK & VIVIEN THOMAS 1930 Nashville. A twenty-year old African American man, honors student, and son of a carpenter had his eyes set on becoming a physician. This was not unfounded. […]

Did Casimir Pulaski have 21-hydroxylase deficiency?

October 28, 2019

Gregory Rutecki Lyndhurst, Ohio, United States Casimir Pulaski, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands. Allen & Ginter. 1888. Metropolitan Museum of Art. “. . . I could not submit to stoop before the sovereigns of Europe, so I came to hazard all the freedom of America, and desirous […]

Should primary hyperaldosteronism be renamed Litynski-Conn Syndrome?

October 28, 2019

Gregory Rutecki Lyndhurst, Ohio, United States Michael Litynski M.D. was born in 1906 in Lodz, Poland. As a physician during World War II, he joined the Polish Resistance. He treated resistance fighters and was active during the infamous Warsaw Uprising in 1945. Dr. Litynski was also awarded the Yad Vashem medal for his brave […]

“The Sick Child” in Scandinavian art

October 28, 2019

Göran Wettrell Sweden Figure 1. The Sick Child, Gabriel Metsu, 1660-65, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Within Western figurative pictorial art there has long been an interest in showing sick children, their psychological attitudes, the effects on the family, and indeed the very reality of disease. One of the best known works on this subject is by […]