NEW ARRIVALS June 29, 2020 Somerset Maugham, JMS Pearce The old ice box The two doctors The last iron lungs, Charles Halsted Pursuing ‘Conclusions Infinite:’ the inspiration of Georg Cantor, Sylvia Karasu Leonhard Thurneysser: scholar, alchemist, and miracle doctor, George Dunea Our celiac boarder, Charles Halsted COVID-19 and 1665: learning from Daniel Defoe, Brian Birch The history of quarantine and contact tracing, Mariella Scerri, Victor Grech The germ of laziness, Enrique Chaves-Carballo Oswaldo Cruz and the eradication of infectious diseases in Brazil, Robert Perlman E.T.A. Hoffmann’s neurological disease, Nicolás Robles Covid battleground, Elena Wilson Mary Josephine Hannan: portrait of a pioneer, Katie King How Britain rescued scientists from Nazi tyranny, JMS Pearce Companionable books Compassion, Charles Halsted Review: Intensive Care: A GP, A Community and COVID-19, Arpan K. Banerjee Rage against the machine, Kaitlin Kan Encephalitis lethargica, George Dunea Ogino Ginko, one of the first female doctors in Japan, Mariel Tishma Emblems and psychological medicine on the Sutton Hoo purse, Stephen Martin Agricola’s De re metallica: description of industrial diseases, George Dunea Ancient Greek plague and coronavirus, Patrick Bell The loneliness of the long-living doctor, Peter Arnold Selman Waksman, “father of antibiotics” & fighter of tuberculosis, George Dunea Editor’s Choice Battling poverty, injustice, ignorance and fear, and despair The three contraries of Benjamin Franklin A moonie The other Timothy Leary Tobias and the Angel The girl with a pearl earring Sherlock Holmes on Covid-19 boredom Countess of Lovelace Doris Unland Three contraries of Benjamin Franklin Obesity in the Middle Ages Robert Lee’s myocardial infarction The novice The use of language in health Intersection of mental illness Death and palliation in opera Beethoven’s contribution in medicine Intubation incarceration
