History Essays
Rebekah Burgess Abramovich
Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim
William R. Albury
From changelings to extraterrestrials: depictions of autism in popular culture
Historical reflections on cause, responsibility and blame in medicine
Jacob Appel
The derailment of Franklin Pierce
Mohammad Hossein Azizi and Farzaneh Azizi
A History of the Human Plague in Iran
Joyce Balls-Berry, Lea Dacy, and James Balls
“Heard It through the Grapevine”: The black barbershop as a source of health information
Jeremy Hugh Baron
Professor Lord Lister, William Ernest Henley, and Oscar Wilde
Sailors’ scurvy before and after James Lind – a reassessment
How much should we know about our leaders’ health?
Emily Bethea
The US hospice movement: redressing modern medicine
David Blitzer, Alvise Guariento, and Robert M. Sade
The Lewis and Clark Expedition: medical ethics in uncharted territory
Julius P. Bonello
Trying to conceive: royal fertility issues in Renaissance times
Julius P. Bonello and Adam Awwad
A sporting end to Henry II, King of France
Jennifer Borst
Swaddling: Forever bound in controversy?
Basil Brooke
A happy individual knows nothing
Stewart Cameron
Arthur Wohlmann and the Rotorua Health Spa
Philippe Campillo and Daniel Caballero
Ninan Chacko
Enrique Chaves-Carballo
Death, disease, and discrimination during the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914)
Erin Connelly
“If it be a poor man”: medieval medical treatment for the rich and poor
Anita Cooke
Michael Crossland
Paul Dakin
John Wesley: amateur physician and health crusader
Nada Darwish and Alan Weber
Muslim women healers of the medieval and early modern Ottoman Empire
Joseph deBettencourt
History repeated: child abuse in the United States
Richard de Grijs
Vincent P. de Luise
Medicean optics: an analysis of Raffaello’s Portrait of Pope Leo X and Two Cardinals
Jessica Douthwaite
Leaving nothing to the imagination: Casualties Union and post-war first aid training
George Dunea
Porphyria Variegata, a disease of kings
High drama in the scullery
Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor
Ivan Illich after almost half a century
Agricola’s De re metallica: an early description of industrial diseases
Diane de Poitiers, a case of mammary narcissism
The assassination of President McKinley: death from traumatic gunshot pancreatitis?
Lucrezia Borgia—victim of her times
Science and medicine in Venice
Jack Effron
The battle of the vivisected dog
Eve Elliot
The Queen’s quickening: the phantom pregnancies of Mary I
Claire Elliott
How not to make the consultation sexy
Michael Ellman
Mark Hanna’s knees and the Panama Canal
Patrick Fiddes and Paul A. Komesaroff
An emperor unclothed: the virtuous Osler
Paul G. Firth
Howard Fischer
Another look at the medical problems of Jean-Paul Marat: searching for a unitary diagnosis
Nazi doctors and medical eponyms
Creating a race of orphans: Lebensborn, the “spring of life”
Syndrome K and the Fatebenefratelli Hospital
The Warsaw ghetto hunger study
When the FBI investigated William Carlos Williams
“The trial” of Dr. Spock
Andersonville, Georgia and Elmira, New York: When Hell was on Earth
A tangled web: stealing newborns in twentieth-century Spain
Fascist Italy: The Battle for Births
Going berserk new
Dr. Alice Miller on Hitler’s childhood new
Morris Fishbein
Ludvig Hektoen: A biography and an appreciation
Ronald Fishman
Dirty, dark, dangerous: coal miners’ nystagmus
Patrick Flynn
Healing in the face of cultural devastation
James L. Franklin
Chicago medicine and peptic ulcer disease
Eisenhower and Crohn’s Disease
In praise of swimming: from Benjamin Franklin to Oliver Sacks
The three contraries of Benjamin Franklin: “the gout, the stone and not yet master of all my passions”
Guaiac and “the old Guaiacum test”
Laurette Geldenhuys and Guillermo Quinonez
Samuel Clossy’s Observations: an unrecognized contribution to the origin of anatomical pathology
Charles Raymond Gill
Bank of England Medical Officers: from Napoleonic to modern times
Denis Gill
Ira D. Glick, Danielle Kamis, and Neil Eisenberg
Improving health and saving lives: the unusual relationship of religion on sports and health
F. Gonzalez-Crussi
An “enematic” saga
Cranium: the symbolic powers of the skull
Of luxuriant manes and in praise of baldness
Kevis Goodman
“Uncertain disease”: the science of nostalgia
Magdalena Grassman and Eva Niklinska
The Polish White Cross – birthed on American soil to support Polish soldiers abroad
B. Herold Griffith
Two great Scots: John and William Hunter
Lynsey Grosfield
Collections complete: experiential centres of learning
Stanley Gutiontov
Pig man: pigs in medicine from Galen to transgenic xenotransplantation
Timo Hannu
Thomas Bartholin’s consolation on the burning of his library
Bert Hansen
Medical history on the silver screen: Hollywood’s ten-minute films about medical heroes
Katherine Harvey
“Troubled in my eyes”: the risks of reading and writing
Laura D. Hirshbein
Barry I. Hoffbrand
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and their fees
Liz Jones
The promise of a perfect smile
Paul G. Joseph
Stewart Justman
Musical evenings on HMS Bounty
Charles G. Kels
Political obfuscation and medical speculation
Mahek Khwaja
Healing and hedonism: a reevaluation of Hashishian legends of crime and indulgence
Lloyd Klein
General Robert E Lee’s myocardial infarction: did illness impact the Battle of Gettysburg?
Infectious diseases in the Civil War
Adam Komorowski and Sang Ik Song
Doctorum Ecclesiae: the medical clerics of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, England
Episteme and translation in an annotated copy of the Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
Stephen Kosnar
Welcome to The Jungle: the story of adopting two food safety laws
Biji T. Kurien
K.N. Lai
Illness shapes the course of human events
Marshall A. Lichtman
The first effective chemotherapy for cancer
Philip R. Liebson
The sweating sickness in Tudor England: a plague of the Renaissance
Citizen Zinsser: portrait of a Renaissance man
The death of James Abram Garfield
The talented Dr. Cotton and other quacks
Kevin R. Loughlin
Joseph Warren: The forgotten founder
A 130-year-old medical cold case: who was Jack the Ripper?
The search for Eisenhower’s adrenal tumor
The death of Zachary Taylor: the first presidential assassination or a bad bowl of cherries?
Samuel Mudd MD: Good Samaritan or conspirator?
Teddy Roosevelt: did a speech really save his life?
Christopher Magoon
Silvia Maina
Medical photography in the nineteenth century: from portraits to clinical photography
Constance Markey
Stephen Martin
Emblems and psychological medicine on the Sutton Hoo purse
Stephen Martin and Aidan Jones
S.E.S. Medina
The Philosophers’ Stone: history and myth
Juliana Menegakis
Queen Juana: the mad or the betrayed?
Maureen Miller
Consolidation: pneumonia and other pathologies on the Bellevue Hospital Autopsy
Lisa Mullenneaux
Choose your poison: the curious case of Dr. Waite
Jacquline Musgrave
Risking it all to save strangers—remembering Gisella Perl
Carlos G. Musso
Auenbrugger, Corvisart and Laennec: Three Generations that Forged the Basis of Chest Examination
Carlos G. Musso and Paula Enz
Ivan Pavlov: a pioneer researcher and fine human being
Seamus O’Mahony
J.M.S. Pearce
The forgotten Darwin
The Lunar Society legacy
The Monros: a medical dynasty
Nicholas Culpeper and Herbal Medicine
Scurvy before James Lind
The legacy and maladies of Jonathan Swift
The X Club
The other Charles Darwin (1758-1778)
Science versus religion: the medieval disenchantment
Joseph Merrick, “The Elephant Man”
Jean-Paul Marat, physician and revolutionary
St. Audrey Etheldrida
The “Ether Controversy”
The discoverers of aspirin
Leeching and François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
Harvey Cushing and pituitary diseases
The medical exploits of Roald Dahl
The illness of King George III
What makes a polymath, a genius, or a man who knows everything?
Einar Perman
Samuel Tissot: patient compliance in the 18th century
Doctor Moore on 18th century medicine
Colin Phoon
The origins of pediatrics as a clinical and academic specialty in the United States
The remarkable Harriet Lane
Constantina Pitsillides
Susan Brunn Puett and J. David Puett
The Florentine Renaissance apothecary
Suzanne Raga
Anesthesia: culture, technology, and the rise of the surgeon
Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez
The monarch, the musician, and the medic
Ira Rezak
Medicine and medals in 19th and 20th century France
Sarah Riedlinger, Dean Giustini, and Brenden Hursh
Part I: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s
Part II: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s
Jack E. Riggs and David B. Watson
“Between false modesty … and conceit” – Sir Roger Bannister
Ann W. Robinson
Nicolas Roberto Robles
Saint John of God and the origins of nursing
Too many doctors: the death of Friedrich III
Tony Ryan
Mount Everest and a medical atlas
Otology in late Victorian Ireland
Anthony Ryan and Grace Neville
Le petit journal, clowns & children in hospital in Victorian London
Lynn Veach Sadler
The divine leaf: physick and the cause for physick
L. J. Sandlow
Oaths, codes, and charters in medicine over the ages
Shrestha Saraf, Sanjay Saraf, and Sudarshan Ramachandran
Saty Satya-Murti and Michael Engh
When needs trumped faith and dogma: early twentieth century Los Angeles women’s social conscience
Mariella Scerri
Wet nursing: a historical perspective
Erika Silvestri
Wilhelm Werner’s life unworthy of life: a voice from the Nazi Euthanasia Program
Anabelle S. Slingerland
The history of diabetes and insulin
Elizabeth A. J. Scott
Steve Server
Finding a “New Orientation” in Mexican Public Health: the Servicio Médico-Social
Julie Silverman
Dame Cicely Saunders and the foundation of the hospice movement
Armando Susmano
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s last illness
Mariel Tishma
“Some little show of nail”: the health of Anne Boleyn
“Rich man, poor man”: a history of lead poisoning
The history and mystery of cupping
Women in the medical profession: the trial of Jacoba Felicie de Almania
Frankincense and myrrh: medicinal resin worth more than gold
Body and soul, balance and the Sibyl of the Rhine: the life and medicine of Saint Hildegard of Bingen
“For their own sakes”: The Edinburgh Seven, Surgeon’s Hall Riot, and the fate of English medical women
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Medical and other memories of the Cold War and its Iron Curtain
Katarina Villner
“And of scurvy the teeth fall out of them”
Sara Vogt
Diagnosing defectives: disability, gender and eugenics in the United States, 1910-1924
Daniel Vuillermin and Richard de Grijs
“Marvailous Cures”: sympathetic medicine connecting Europe and China
William H. Wehrmacher
Illuminating the third millennium with flashes of experience from the 20th century
George M. Weisz and Andrzej Grzybowski
Ludwik Fleck, physician in Lwow Ghetto
Isobel P. Williams
Captain Scott’s brave and loyal assistant: Petty Officer Edgar Evans
Andrew Williams and Frederick O’Dell
“Surrounded with many Mercies”: 270 years of patient advice
Philip K. Wilson
Weighing medical evidence on a historical scale
Andrew P. K. Wodrich
Plague epidemics and the evolution of language in England
Frank A. Wollheim
Dr. Wedekind’s son: a Frank story
James R. Wright Jr.
Ping Yu & Chi Lu
Richard Zhang
A Tale of Two Tonics: Sino-Western psychopharmaceutical modernity in Shanghai, 1936
American ginseng as an herbal emissary influencing Qing-American trade relations
Vignettes
Is history good for you? Pros and cons
Origins of the Pap smear
