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April 1, 2022

 

ENCORE: in case you missed it
The King’s-Evil and sensory experience The trouble with Hamlet’s body and soul Alcohol and the art of David Teniers Jr. On not remembering faces Letters from the asylum The Monros: a medical dynasty Visualizing Mozart Shackleton’s angel The pulsilogium and the diagnosis of love sickness The history of condoms in the military Tobias Smollett: his life and experiences  Bellevue Hospital at the dawn of the apocalypse  Joseph Babinski of the Babinski Sign  About face: from revulsion to compassion  The Hogmouths of Habsburg Dr. Pozzi at home The Caesar never meant to be emperor
 Childbirth practices in “Doctor Zhivago” Syphilis among the British aristocracy Art, Cristobal Rojas, and tuberculosis Mystery in clinical case reports The language of narrative medicine Shiloh Bank of England medical officers Addiction morphinomania The discovery of oxygen Reflections on medicine and art Tolstoy, the Death of Ivan  Ilyich  The caesar who became emperor

 

ART IN MEDICINE
Bronzino and the wages of sin Distorting anatomy The Crucifixion of Christ A painting for services rendered? Kleptomania Margaret of Austria A fashionable physician The bitter potion  Portrait of a physician Model for an artist Portrait of a surgeon Madonna and Child

 

HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Schola Medica Salernitana & medical philosophy The death of Charles II Ambroise Pare on the battlefield Healthcare for the Popes The Sun King and his ailments Erasistratus by the bedside Lorenzo the Magnificent King Henry VIII: more ailments than wives The death of George II The Emperor and his physicians The last illness of Edward VI Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) The King who bumped his head  Cromwell

 

 

PROMINENT SURGEONS
James Syme Percival Pott Robert Liston Thomas Dent Mutter William Halsted Sir James Paget Fabricius Hildanus Dominique Jean Larrey William Cheselden  Sir Astley Cooper Lord Moynihan Christiaan Barnard Lord Lister Gaspare Tagliacozzi Emil Theodor Kocher Albucasis Harvey Cushing Ferdinand Sauerbruch  Percival Pott  Theodor Billroth

 

 

PHYSICIANS OF NOTE
Caleb Parry Herman Boerhave Benjamin Rush Nils von Rosenstein John Chamber Sir Theodore de Mayerne Joseph Bell Henrik Sjogren Sir George Frederick Still Carl von Rokitansky Philippe Gaucher Pierre Bretonneau Thomas Linacre Thomas Young Thomas Sydenham Sir William Duke-Elder Samuel Wilks John Wall Cosgrave E. McDowell William Babington Luigi Galvani Jean Corvisart

 

GREAT NEUROLOGISTS
A black and white photograph of Dr. Gordon Holmes. Portrait of Lord Walter Russell Brain Portrait of Sir Francis Walshe Photo of William John Adie Sir Victor Horsley Wilder Penfield's image on a Canadian stamp Photo of Howard H. Tooth Photo of Derek Ernest Denny-Brown
Jean-Martin Charcot Joseph Babinski Moritz Romberg Charles Symonds Pierre Marie Kinnier Wilson James Parkinson Jules Dejerine Theophile Alajouanine Duchenne de Boulogne William Richard Gowers Gordon Holmes Russell Brain Francis Walshe William John Adie Sir Victor Horsley Wilder Penfield Oliver Sacks William Alexander Hammond Jean Cruveilhier Howard H. Tooth Derek Denny-Brown Macdonald Critchley John Hughlings Jackson

 

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS
Painting of William Beaumont Photo go Enest Henry Starling Photo of Thomas Henry Huxley Gerty and Carl Cori at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony Dorothy Hodgkin Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (née Yardley) Tu Youyou, Nobel Laureate in medicine in Stockholm
Paul Ehrlich Charles Darwin William Beaumont John Tyndall Alfred Russel Wallace Ernest Starling Thomas Huxley Van Leeuwenhoek Giovanni Borelli Johannes Purkinje Carl and Gerti Cori John Dalton Dorothy Hodgkin Kathleen Lonsdale Albrecht von Haller Tu Youyou Carl Ludwig  Ramon y Cajal  Jean Marie Poiseuille  Claude Bernard  Antoine Lavoisier Albert Einstein Santorio Santorio 

 

INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Measles Scarlet Fever Smallpox Bartolenosis Brucellosis Polio Cholera Kala Azar Dengue Syphilis Typhoid ulcers Ebola Leprosy Plague Diptheria Kuru Malaria Yellow Fever

 

 

ANATOMY
Andreas Vesalius Antonio Scarpa Gabriele Falloppio Giovanni Batista Mogani Marcello Malpighi Juan Valverde de Amusco Hieronymus Fabricius Bartolomeo Eustachio Galen of Pergamon Antonio Valsalva Berengario de Carpi Vidus Vidius Johann Conrad Brunner Adrianus Spigelius Henry Gray Costanzo Varolio Antonio Benivieni Gerard Blasius Julius Caesar Aranzi Mondino de’ Liuzzi Giulio Casserio Bernardino Genga

 

 

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UNION LEAGUE CLUB CHICAGO ART COLLECTION
Gertrude Abercrombrie: art and pancreatic affliction Death by dysentery? Artist Frank Russell Wadsworth in Madrid Robert Louis Stevenson and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

 

 

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THE MEDICI RULERS OF FLORENCE 
Under the rule of the Medici family, Florence became one of the wealthiest city-states in Europe and the locus of the rebirth in arts, literature, and science of the cultural European Renaissance of the fifteenth century.
Cosimo the Elder Lorenzo the Magnificent Piero de’ Medici (“The Gouty”) Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany​

 

 

SCOTLAND
Glasgow Royal Infirmary Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Craiglockhart War Hospital The Monros Sir Robert Sibbald Robert Liston  James Syme Joseph Bell James Simpson  Sir James Matheson  Alexander Gordon  John Moore Robert Knox  Thomas Latta James Lind William Cullen Thomas Keith

 

UNITED STATES HOSPITALS
Michael Reese Hospital Bellevue Hospitals Freedmen’s Hospital Washington D.C.  Johns Hopkins Hospital Maynard-Columbus Hospital, Nome, Alaska Provident Hospital, Chicago Rush Medical College, Chicago Roosevelt Hospital, New York Old Cook County Hospital Walter Reed Army Medical Center Harborview Hospital, Seattle San Francisco General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Pennsylvania Hospital Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston Dispensary Williamsburg Hospital, Virginia St. Vincent Hospital Indianapolis Alcatraz Hospital Ellis Island Hospital Joslin Diabetes Center Montefiore Medical Center, NY The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary Hillman Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama 

 

 

HOSPITAL GRAND TOUR
Exterior shot of L’Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune. Image linked to the article.
Montreal Neurological Montreal Children’s Dublin St. Patrick’s Dublin Meath Leeds London St. Bartholomew’s London St. Mary’s  Royal London Paris Beaune Copenhagen Moscow Berlin Aachen Heidelberg Padua Ferrara Malta Cape Town Soweto Lambarene Qatar Baghdad Karachi Vellore Hong Kong Korea Sydney Hospital Sydney Royal Prince Alfred

 

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ISLAMIC MEDICINE

During the expansion of the Empire of Islam and its ensuing Golden Age, physicians from Spain to Samarkand advanced the medical sciences by reviving existing Greek medicine and adding their own innovations.1 We have selected here the most prominent physicians who contributed to the remarkable flowering of Islamic medicine and are referenced in our journal,

  • Mesua, Yalhya ibn Masawaih c.777-857
  • Joannitius, Hunayn ibu Ishaq el Ibadi 809-873
  • Rhazi, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi 865-925
  • Al Kindi c.801-c.873
  • Haly Abbas Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Majusi, or Masoudi 982–994
  • Albucasis Abu Al-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi 936-1013 AD
  • Al Hazen Hasan Ibn al-Haytham c.965-c.1040
  • Avicenna Ibn Sinna 980-1037
  • Averroes  or Ibn Rushd 1126-1198
  • Ibn al-Nafis 1210-1288
  • Maimonides or Moses bin Maimon 1135-1204
  •  Avenzoar Abumeron or Abu Merwan Abd-al-Malik ibn Zuhr 12th century