Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Seven Works of Mercy

  • Food of the body

    Katrina GenuisVancouver, Canada Two thousand years ago, the Roman writer Valerius Maximus documented a particularly strange set of events. In his collection Memorable Doings and Sayings, Maximus recounts thousands of episodes of exemplary Roman behavior. One of these is the tale of a woman, Pero, and her father, Myco (also called Cimon). In the brief…