Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Summer 2013

  • Photo journalist — The garden in winter — The violets

    Jeanne Bryner Cortland, Ohio, United States   Photo journalist Like patio umbrellas our green tomatoes shade these babies, six bunnies dressed in furry snowsuits. God tells a joke in July and quickly, you must run for your camera. It’s just this way living out of town, wanting a mess of fried green tomatoes for supper…

  • Lord Moynihan and his Truants

    Lord Moynihan Richard Jack, RA, 1928 Royal College of Surgeons England and Board Room, General Infirmary at Leeds, England Medicine is a jealous mistress, demanding to the extreme, and he who strays too far from her is often regarded with suspicion by colleagues and patients. How can he be a good doctor if he spends…

  • The early days in the history of appendectomy

    Damiano Rondelli Chicago, Illinois, United States   Introduction What we define as appendicitis today is a relatively recent clinical picture that was well-described only in the 19th century. This is in part due to the difficult anatomic identification of the appendix. Although scholars believed to find possible descriptions of the appendix in the work of…