Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Khwan Phusrisom

  • Traditional medicine in Yang Talat district, Isaan, Thailand

    Khwan PhusrisomBaan Dong Bang, Thailand & UK Isaan is northeast Thailand, wedged between Laos and Cambodia. I grew up there, in Yang Talat district, (Fig 1) in the Baan Dong Bang village headman’s teak house, where I saw traditional medicine in use from an early age. More recently I asked villagers including elders, farmers, teachers,…

  • The Siamese Expeditionary Force of World War I and the Spanish Flu

    Khwanchai PhusrisomStephen MartinMahasarakham, Thailand The Siamese military presence In July 1918, 1284 Siamese volunteers arrived in Marseilles by ship1.  Their air force personnel did not see action because their training had not been completed before the end of the war.  The ground troops (Fig 1) had been trained, but being too few to form an…