Articles
| Zenexton: early modern plague prophylactics, Christopher Duffin Contrast allergy in question, David Green Ultra-processed foods: Pros and cons, Ashutosh Gupta Touch wood, Loshini Rajentharan The clinician who taught us to see: Remembering Prof. Kolitha Harischandra Sellahewa, Shane Halpe Věc Makropulos and the ownership of immortality, David Hogan “Neurasthenia” and the concealment of Woodrow Wilson’s strokes, Joseph Lockhart, Saty Satya-Murti “The hunchback”: Literary and historical perspectives, Avi Ohry Something fishy about vegetarians, carnivores, and longevity, Simon Wein Charles Norris and the evolution of forensic medicine, Zo Overton-Hennessy, Noel Brownlee |
| Pulse to poetry, Xavier Nesbit Divergent experiences of German and Jewish mothers in the Third Reich, Josephine Sales Book review: New Life. New Beginnings: Compelling Stories by Organ Recipients, Donors, and Doctors, Arpan K. Banerjee The elusive fountain of youth, Jayant Radhakrishnan Birds and wellbeing, Simon Wein Cancer is a crab, Sahanashree Rajeshkumar Gallbladder as Fig, Vivian Nye Hiroshima: Are its lessons fading?, Barry Perlman Beyond the fingerstick, Allison Wang Max Thorek: An ignored surgical superstar, Jayant Radhakrishnan |
Vignettes
| A bleeding crisis in the air, George Dunea Getting drunk without drinking: When the body produces its own alcohol, Fadime Pala Kumbhakarna, a sleeping giant: A medico-mythological exploration, B. Sadananda Naik Did Queen Anne have systemic lupus and antiphospholipid syndrome?, Óscar Lamas Filgueira Tobacco and hunger, Nicolas Robles et al. Medical themes in the writing of Richard Graves, Avi Ohry The toxin in the garden: The Wilms tumor miracle, Prasad Iyer Saint John Climacus and The Ladder of Divine Ascent, George Christopher A canvas of grief: Claude Monet’s first wife, Sally Metzler The seed and the stone: Loss in a Harare GYN clinic, Rachel Chitofu |
| On quadruple amputations, Avi Ohry 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 |