Volume 12, Issue 4

September 8, 2020

Readers are invited to enjoy this selection of articles for the fall, as well as exploring the new Vignettes section.

Ghirlandaio: the portrait of an elderly man and young boy, Vincent P. de Luise

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

Professionalism in crisis: Dr. Winkel and The Third Man, Paul Dakin

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

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