Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: iodide

  • Frederick Delius and his neurological disease

    The life of the English composer Frederick Delius and his tragic encounter with the spirochaeta pallida has been extensively documented. He was born in 1862 in the industrial Yorkshire town of Bradford. His family had come to England from Germany but was originally Dutch, having changed its name in the sixteenth century from Delij or…