Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Adoration of the Christ Child

  • Down syndrome through the centuries in art

    Bojana CokićZajecar, Serbia  Though fully described by John Langdon Down in 1862, this syndrome of delayed growth, characteristic facial features, and intellectual impairment has been featured in numerous works of art since antiquity. References BOJANA COKIĆ, MD, is a pediatrician specialized in clinical genetics at the Children’s Hospital in Zajecar, Serbia, where she was been…