Moments in History—Vignettes
MAS Ahmed and Natasja Vandepitte
Arpan K. Banerjee
The Royal Society of Medicine of London: A brief history
Peter H. Berczeller
Craig Blackstone
Joseph deBettencourt
Stephen Hales: belief and blood pressure
Theo’s marvelous medicine
George Dunea
Isidor Snapper: a colorful but tyrannical chief
Edward Jenner and the dairymaid
Gerard van Swieten and his reforms
Healthcare for the popes
Hubris syndrome – a moment in history?
The last illness of King Edward VI (1537–1553)
The fatal illness of Prince Albert
The last days of George Washington
King Henry VIII: More ailments than wives
Doctor bites policeman in Chicago religious dispute
The Emperor Maximilian II and his physicians
Charles VIII: the king who bumped his head
The gout of the Medici
Louis XIV and his ailments
John Calvin: his rule in Geneva and his many illnesses
The most loathsome disease of the emperor Galerius
Percussion of the chest: Leopold Auenbrugger
The philosopher’s dementia: Immanuel Kant
The ligament of Vaclav Treitz
Erasistratus
Otto Kahler, Bence Jones, and multiple myeloma
Celiac disease, Areteus, and Samuel Gee
Pedanius Dioscorides: The first encyclopedia of plants and drugs
The public death of Prince Albert
Oliver Cromwell’s illnesses and death
Mary Tudor (“Bloody Mary”) 1516-1558
Francesco Antommarchi, the Malvolio of St. Helena
The death of King George II
The bullet in Garibaldi’s ankle
Michel de Montaigne in his circular library
Selman Waksman, “father of antibiotics” and conquest of tuberculosis
Robert the Bruce
The mysterious illness of Christopher Columbus WIN ’23
Howard Fischer
Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox
The secret medical school in the Warsaw Ghetto
The surgeon’s photograph of the Loch Ness monster
Operation Pedro Pan: Saving Cuban children from communism
Ronald S. Fishman
Julie Gianakon
Ludvig Hektoen
Embolism of the left coronary artery; sudden death
Our developing knowledge of gonorrhea and syphilis
On a case of multiple foci of interstitial myocarditis in hereditary syphilis
Ludvig Hektoen and Beatrice R. Lovett
Ludvig Hektoen and Charlotte Johnson
Prevention of diphtheria and scarlet fever in nurses
Ludvig Hektoen and George H. Weaver
Experiments on the transmission of scarlet fever to monkeys
Susan Hurley
Adam S. Komorowski and Sang Ik Song
The King’s-Evil and sensory experience in Richard Wiseman’s Severall Chirurgicall Treatises
Marshall A. Lichtman
Masters, Lindstrom, and decanal adventures
Deserving but unrecognized: the forty-first seat
James Mathew
Meeting of minds: when scientists and artists meet
Summer A. Niazi and Jack E. Riggs
“Gentlemen! This is no humbug.”
John Parascandola
JMS Pearce
Hans Christian Andersen, James Young Simpson, and ether frolics
Roshan Radhakrishnan
Ira L. Rezak
Hansjörg Rothe
The mystical prophet and his Bride of Christ
Gregory W. Rutecki
Should primary hyperaldosteronism be renamed Litynski-Conn Syndrome?
Did Casimir Pulaski have 21-hydroxylase deficiency?
Brian Sharpless
Changing conceptions of the nightmare in medicine
Robert Siegel
Krzyś Stachak
Achilles and his famous tendon
Matthew Turner
Healer of the pharaohs: History’s first woman doctor
Jan Peter Verhave
Frank Wollheim
A tale of two cities: Swedish roots of electrophoresis
A.J. Wright
What November may bring: the first 37 days of surgical anesthesia
Vignettes
Ether dome
Sir Frederick Treves, who operated on King Edward VII
On the uncertainty of human affairs (Guicciardini)
