Hektoen International https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Infectious Disease Cat zoonoses that infect humans The Massachusetts General Hospital Doctor Riker’s decision Brushstrokes and benevolence: Thomas Sully, Samuel Coates, and the Pennsylvania Hospital Joseph Warren: The forgotten founder Thomas Jefferson’s medical schools The three contraries of Benjamin Franklin: “The gout, the stone and not yet master of all my passions” Washington’s deadliest enemy Washington and his spectacles The last days of George Washington Physicians of the American Revolution When the FBI investigated William Carlos Williams Chinese footbinding: A millennium of mutilation Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox Volume 18, Issue 4 – Fall 2026 Volume 18, Issue 4 – Fall 2026 Volume 18, Issue 3 – Summer 2026 Past Issues Asia Africa 2026 Hektoen Essay Contest New Arrivals Philippe Ricord: A pioneer in venereal disease treatment Dr. Placido Procesi, Giulio Evola, and paraplegia Antiquity, Middle Ages, & Islam Diagnosing sculptures: Two Greco-Roman case histories <i>Arabia Felix</i>, Yemen in distress Eritrea: History, demographics, and healthcare Art Essays Between science and spectacle: Dr. Luys, hypnotism, and the art of Georges Moreau de Tours Psychiatry & Psychology Anatomy Literary Essays From Epidaurus to the hospital ward The transcendental benefit of cadaveric dissection <i>Wuthering Heights</i>: Is love a terminal disease? Kyrgyzstan: Splendor in mountainous Central Asia Uzbekistan: The miracle between the two rivers Frederick A. Cook, MD: First to reach the North Pole or <i>A Hero in Disgrace</i>? Turkmenistan, old and new Harken, Ibsen, and the birth of the Intensive Care Unit Mali: History and healthcare The one-eyed man of Epidaurus and the history of symblepharon Contact & Submission Instructions Macdonald Critchley <i>Tea with Walter de la Mare</i> by Russell Brain Walter Russell Brain DM FRCP FRS (1895–1966) Fra Bartolommeo End of Life