Hektoen International https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Pierre Marie (1853–1940) Volume 18, Issue 3 – Summer 2026 Infectious Disease History Essays Food Education Doctors, Patients, & Diseases The basest of the senses: Medical unease with the sense of smell Literary Essays Mark Twain (1835–1910): Medical Cardiology From bedside to bench: The discovery of calmodulinopathy Asia Art Essays Psychiatry & Psychology Anorexia nervosa: The disease of self-starvation Eating pigs, cows, and horses End of Life New Arrivals Canine gerontology Paella, the universal rice dish Anthropology Dobosh torte, a culinary masterpiece Music Box Antiquity, Middle Ages, & Islam The cucumber: A fruit disguised as a vegetable Zenexton: Early modern plague prophylactics Dr. Willem J. Kolff: A great man Sir Charles Symonds (1890–1978), the neurologist’s neurologist “Neurasthenia” and the concealment of Woodrow Wilson’s strokes Anatomy Determination of death Science Goosebumps: When the body remembers Psychosis and Western cultural history Use of masks to control the spread of infection: more than a century of confusion Four-leaf clover The Neuron Doctrine: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi Hulusi Behçet (1889–1948) Travel & Gardens A bleeding crisis in the air Siberia medical Contrast allergy in question Goulash: A symbol of Hungary The donkey in culture, science, and medicine Africa Omentum: Much more than “policeman of the abdomen” The three main rivers of Africa and their main diseases Getting drunk without drinking: When the body produces its own alcohol Visualizing Mozart