Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Boer War

  • “Dr. Jim” (Sir Leander Jameson): A hero and villain of the British Empire

    Jonathan DavidsonDurham, North Carolina, United States If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you……If you can meet with triumph and disasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;…Yours is the Earth and everything’s that’s in it,And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”—“If” by Rudyard Kipling…

  • Howard H. Tooth CB., CMG., MD., FRCP.

    JMS PearceHull, England Howard Tooth (1856-1925) was one of many physicians who served well their patients and their profession, but who would be unknown save for a syndrome that bears and perpetuates their name. Howard Tooth (Fig 1) was born in Hove, Sussex, educated at Rugby School and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he…

  • Joseph Bell and Conan Doyle

    JMS PearceEast Yorks, England “…The remarkable individuality and discriminating tact of my old master made a deep and lasting impression on me, though I had not the faintest idea that it would one day lead me to forsake medicine for story writing.” Arthur Conan Doyle is remembered worldwide as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. The…