Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Alice in Wonderland

  • Carroll’s Wonderland

    Yvonne Kusiima Kampala, Uganda   Alice experiences total-body macrosomatogonosia. Illustration by John Tenniel (1865) In 1865 the world was introduced to the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. In the book, a young girl named Alice is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on…

  • Down a rabbit hole

    Eli Cannon Escondido, California, United States   “Dad?” Original illustration dated 1865, by John Tenniel (1820 –1914), for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The voice is barely audible. Is that because Iris is upstairs in her room and I’m downstairs reading in the living room? Or is it because…? I drop my book and run…