Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

Robert Louis Stevenson and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

April 29, 2020

Sally Metzler Chicago, Illinois, USA Fig. 1: Edward Joseph F. Timmons, Stevenson House, ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Collection of the Union League Club Chicago. Famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to Monterey, California, in 1879 and lived for three months on the second floor of a white adobe boarding house called […]

Only blood

February 3, 2020

Anthony Chiocchi New York, New York, United States Dona Mercedes Velasco’s recovery from nosebleed after prayer to the Lord of the Abandoned. Oil painting, 1854. Wellcome Collection. CC BY-NC 4.0. I remember my first nosebleed. It was the late eighties and I was at the age where it was still permissible for me to sleep […]