Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Lost Lives and An Unquiet Life.

  • Matters of the heart

    Chris Arthur Dundee, Scotland   Leonardo da Vinci, drawing of the human heart [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Among the most impressive of Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical studies are his drawings of the human heart. Beside one of them he has written: “How could you describe this heart in words without filling a whole book?”…