Tag: Rudyard Kipling
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The British Army and disease in Kipling’s “Cholera Camp”
Cristóbal S. Berry-CabánFort Bragg, North Carolina, United States Rudyard Kipling’s writing is inseparable from the British Empire in India, offering a vivid examination at how imperial power, military life, and disease collided. Among the many diseases that plagued the region, cholera was especially terrifying. Kipling’s “Cholera Camp” is a grim narrative poem told from the perspective of…
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Rudyard Kipling: Medical
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), the British writer best known for The Jungle Book, Kim, and his haunting short stories, lived a life profoundly intertwined with medicine. Though not a physician, Kipling’s experiences of illness, grief, and global travel exposed him to medical realities that shaped both his personal life and his literary imagination. His encounters with…
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Kipling’s books
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) is best known for his adventure stories and poems centered on India, empire, and childhood. However, his works also contain rich medical implications—both in their depictions of disease and healing and in their reflection of medical attitudes during the height of British colonialism. From tales of tropical illness to narratives involving surgery,…
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“Dr. Jim” (Sir Leander Jameson): A hero and villain of the British Empire
Jonathan DavidsonDurham, North Carolina, United States If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you……If you can meet with triumph and disasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;…Yours is the Earth and everything’s that’s in it,And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”—“If” by Rudyard Kipling…
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The Bengal tiger: Panthera tigris tigris
James L. FranklinChicago, Illinois, United States The Indian subcontinent for millennia provided the ideal “jungle” habitat for the tiger. When the first Europeans arrived in India the animal was ubiquitous. At the close of the nineteenth century, when Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, 100,000 tigers were thought to roam the subcontinent. By 1971, a critical…
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Rudyard Kipling and the medical profession
George DuneaJames L. FranklinChicago, Illinois Born in Bombay but educated in England, the great master of the English language did not return to India until he was seventeen years old in 1882. He worked for local newspapers in Lahore and Allahabad, and in his spare time began to write the many stories that made him famous. Notable…