Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: ADHD

  • Winnie Ille Pu and Dr. Alexander Lenard

    Avi Ohry Tel Aviv, Israel   Alexander Lenard. Photo via Wikimedia. Public domain. 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…

  • 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 deBettencourt Chicago, Illinois, United States   Portrait of George Frederic Still, while he was working at King’s College Hospital in the early 1900’s. By Gerald Festus Kelly, date unknown, UK Wellcome Collection. licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) Coursing through the heart of Salisbury, a historic cathedral city in Wiltshire, England,…