Articles
| Forensic psychiatry in Marco Ricci’s Flight into Egypt, Stephen Martin, Aidan Jones Antezana Hospital, Spain, Mojca Ramšak Ancient India in 1,500 words, George Dunea Rome’s Ospedale Santo Spirito: From ruin to revival, Sally Metzler On clubfoot, orthopedics, art, and history, Avi Ohry Agatha Christie’s first post-mortem, Stephen McWilliams Ignaz Semmelweis: The original hand hygiene pioneer, Matthew Hill, Abdullah Mubarik, and Julius Bonello “These late eclipses … portend no good to us” – Shakespeare, Edward Tabor The rise and fall of railway spine, Lenny Grant Nicolaas Fontanus, eminent Dutch physician, Annabelle Slingerland |
| Martinus van Marum, physician, scientist, and inventor, Annabelle Slingerland The silence of Dona Zefa, Guilherme Coelho Princes of Physicians: Avicenna and Maimonides, James Marcum I, Baldwin: Leper king of Jerusalem, Óscar Lamas Filgueira Robin Williams: Death from Lewy body dementia, Mary Ellen Kelly Mercurochrome, James L. Franklin The chemistry of coffee and the paradox of balance, Rao Uppu Thoughts in a hospital elevator, Anthony Papagiannis Identity beyond memory: Rethinking early onset Alzheimer’s disease, Firas Ghanem, Nancy Chedid Brain surgery, now and then, Stephen McWilliams Carl Linnaeus as dietitian and pediatrician, Göran Wettrell |
Vignettes
| The spleen and melancholy, George Dunea The once fatal pernicious anemia, George Dunea Earl Bakken: Pacemaker pioneer and founder of Medtronic, Ahmed Nadeem Jacobus Rau: Surgical innovator, renowned lithotomist, and educator at Leiden, George Dunea Bernhard Siegfried Albinus: Anatomist and surgeon, George Dunea Lorenz Heister, German surgeon, George Dunea A second mind in scientific writing, Rao Uppu A Polish tragedy and a case without a diagnosis, George Dunea Sufjan Stevens’s “Casimir Pulaski Day”, Róisín Conlon Charles Bonnet Syndrome: The landscape of my mind, Ceres Alhelí Otero Peniche |
| Shostakovich and the simian serenade, Desmond O’Neill Physicians as inventors, Avi Ohry 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 |