Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: ADHD

  • Winnie Ille Pu and Dr. Alexander Lenard

    Avi OhryTel Aviv, Israel Sandor (Alexander) Lenard1 was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1910 and died in Dona Irma, Santa Catarina, Brazil in 1972. He was a Jewish poet, author, physician, painter, musician, translator, language teacher, philosopher, and polyglot. A short outline of Lenard’s life events could be summarized as follows: Hungary, medical studies in…

  • Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann and Der Struwwelpeter

    Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden   Heinrich Hoffmann: The Struwwelpeter; Frankfurt am Main: Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, 1917 (400th edition); Copy of the Braunschweig University Library Call number: 2007-0968. Via Wikimedia. “Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.” — B.F. Skinner   Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) was a general practitioner in Frankfurt.…

  • Sir George Frederick Still (1868-1941): the constant pediatrician

    Joseph deBettencourtChicago, Illinois, United States Coursing through the heart of Salisbury, a historic cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, are a number of clear and cool rivers.  The water of these rivers runs through layers of chalk bedrock, purifying and alkalizing the water.  These rivers emerge as springs, percolating through the rock and running down the…