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Pediatric pishogues

March 4, 2017

C. Anthony Ryan Bridget Maher Cork, Ireland   Illustration by John Bauer Although superstitions abound in all societies, Irish tradition has an especially long and rich tradition of folk beliefs and superstitions. Thus, when a newborn infant was recently diagnosed with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome,1 a triad of port-wine stain, varicose veins, and hypertrophy, his mother burst […]

A letter from George Boole and Victorian attitudes towards pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding

January 27, 2017

C. Anthony Ryan Desmond MacHale Yvonne Cohen Cork, Ireland   George Boole In 2015, two cities celebrated the 200th anniversary of George Boole’s birth: the City of Lincoln, England where he was born, and Cork City, Ireland, where he died and was buried. Boole was a professor of mathematics at what was then Queen’s College, […]