Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John Keats medical student

  • C. Louis Leipoldt: The polymath physician and literary giant

    Stephen FinnSouth Africa Looking out across a landscape of dramatic mountains and purple and orange sunsets is a small cave. Listen carefully in this desolate place in a western corner of South Africa, and you will hear in the distance the sound of a banjo being plucked. Interred in this cave at his request are…