Articles
| “Fart Proudly”: Benjamin Franklin’s “Prize Question” of 1781, James L. Franklin Helen Taussig, Matthew Hill, Abdullah Mubarik, and Julius Bonello Turmeric: The golden spice, Ashutosh Gupta SubbaRow: Because he lived, you may live longer, Jayant Radhakrishnan Enrique IV of Castile, The Impotent, Nicolas Robles Charles Darwin’s illnesses on HMS Beagle, JMS Pearce The British Army and disease in Kipling’s “Cholera Camp”, Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán Born with a caul: Fact and fiction, James L. Franklin John Berryman, poetry, and addiction, Alan Bleakley Eugenics and the perfusion pump: Lindbergh’s controversial medical legacy, Matthew Turner |
| Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis, JMS Pearce The enduring legacy of William Stewart Halsted, Michael Neff, Mariam Banoub, Julius Bonello The air remembers, Elizabeth Crowston Why did Shakespeare never mention tobacco?, Edward Tabor A German pharmacy cabinet, Christopher Duffin A brief history of fluorescein, Vidhi Naik Sewing for surgeons, Evelyn Lee Early medical imaging and Cubism, Jen He, Vivian McAlister Leonard Rowntree’s biography of James Parkinson, Vivian McAlister From slavery to silk: Anna-Canangan of Java, Falk Steins, Stephen Martin Five ethics cartoons, Mitchell Batavia |
Vignettes
| Francisco Javier de Balmis and the first international vaccination campaign, Arpan K. Banerjee Imhotep: Humanity’s great physician and polymath, Brian O’Dea The canon’s vision, Óscar Lamas Filgueira Early medicine in Australia, George Dunea Famous physicians from Geneva, Switzerland, Avi Ohry The early Medici in Florence, George Dunea Friedrich Welwitsch, physician and botanist, Avi Ohry On extracampine hallucinations and Alexander Selkirk, Avi Ohry Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix, Avi Ohry József Antall: Medical historian, leader, Arpan K. Banerjee |
| V.V. Veresaev, another forgotten physician-author, Avi Ohry Caravaggio: Beauty and crime intertwined, George Dunea Titian: The mastery of color and the perils of paint, George Dunea The Celts, early inhabitants of Europe, George Dunea The Trinity Plague Column in Budapest, Arpan K. Banerjee Hansen’s unethical leprosy experiment, Douglas J. Lanska Artists at war, Avi Ohry Marie de’ Medici, the multiparous queen, George Dunea The Science Lover’s Guide to London, Arpan K. Banerjee Criminal physicians, Avi Ohry |