Please enjoy this selection of articles for fall. Hektoen International thanks all participants in our recent Grand Prix Essay contest. The winner will be announced in an upcoming issue.
Frontispiece
| The discoverers of aspirin, JMS Pearce The year gross anatomy faced the scalpel, Michael Denham The snake, the staff, and the healer, Simon Wein History of medicine in ancient India, Keerthana Kalla The Potato Eaters: Brushstrokes of sickness and sustenance, Jeanne Dsouza How black turned white, Kateryna Tsoi Gav’s Frida Kahlo: Heroine of Pain, Jimin Mathew, Lucy Samuel Strabismo di Venere—Michelangelo’s David, Kevin R. Loughlin |
| Love and death; Painting the farewell, Giovanni Ceccarelli The death of James Abram Garfield, Philip Liebson President McKinley: Death from traumatic gunshot pancreatitis?, George Dunea Justine Siegemund, opening doorways to midwifery, Mariel Tishma The man who hated hospital, Emeka Chibuikem V. Syndrome K and the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Howard Fischer Queen Juana: the mad or the betrayed?, Juliana Menegakis Review: A bio-bibliography of Dr. Thomas Willis 1621–1675, Arpan K. Banerjee |
Vignettes and briefs
| Bulgakov’s “The Steel Windpipe” in A Country Doctor’s Notebook, Michael Bloor Sir Frederick Treves, who operated on King Edward VII Travelling healers pulls a tooth Obesity and art, Bojana Cokić |
| Fra Bartolommeo, George Dunea The plague of ergotism and the grace of God, Wilson Engel Pedanius Dioscorides: The first encyclopedia of plants and drugs, George Dunea The last iron lungs, Charles Halsted |
Encore
| Anastasius the “odd-eyes”, Zeynel Karcioglu The medical university of Jundi-Shapur, Andrew C. Miller The role of canines in health myth and fact, Mariel Tishma The smell of burning rubber: The fatal illness of George Gershwin, James L. Franklin |
| Visualizing Mozart, Vincent de Luise Cleopatra would be diagnosed as a borderline personality, Jonathan Lewis What a physician’s account of Auschwitz can teach us, Christine Henneberg The unloved gut, Fergus Shanahan |
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