Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Macrosomatognosia

  • Carroll’s Wonderland

    Yvonne Kusiima Kampala, Uganda   Alice experiences total-body macrosomatogonosia. Illustration by John Tenniel (1865) In 1865 the world was introduced to the novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. In the book, a young girl named Alice is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on…

  • Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

    Rayda Joomun Mauritius   Diagram A: Total Macrosomatognosia Author Dedication To Deelshad Reezuana, The most beautiful Alice I met, May you rest in peace in Wonderland…   “Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: / Thus slowly, one by one, / Its quaint events hammered out / And now the tale is done, / And home we steer, a merry…