Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: spirocheta pallida

  • Schubert, Schumann, and the Spirochete

    Their names sound Germanic and are somewhat similar, as are their portraits. They wrote beautiful music and rank high among the great composers of the romantic era. To confuse their names would constitute an unforgivable crime, especially in the eye of music lovers. Yet in 1956 fallible East German authorities issued a stamp featuring an…