Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Archives of Internal Medicine

  • Consider the nails of the hand, how they grow (William Bean)

    In the days when the Archives of Internal Medicine was one of the greatest general medicals journal in America, William Bean was its famed editor. Born in 1909 in Manila, he had studied at the University of Charlottesville in Virginia, served in World War II, became professor of medicine in Iowa city, and during his…