Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Pickering-Platt debate

  • The Pickering-Platt debate

    JMS PearceHull, England Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC–43 BC), statesman, scholar, and philosopher once said: If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. It may therefore be worthwhile to recollect the aspects of hypertension highlighted by the famously protracted saga of the…