Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Bourneville’s disease

  • Dr. Désiré-Magloire Bourneville: a man ahead of his time

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.”– Rudolf Virchow, M.D. Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, M.D. (1840–1909), was born into a family of modest means. He earned his medical degree in 1865 in Paris. He is known today, if he is remembered at all, as the…