Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Chief

  • The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the legacy of Long John Silver

    George VentersScotland Faced with the danger of having his right foot amputated in 1873, the real “Long John Silver,” the English poet William E. Henley, turned for help to Joseph Lister and became a patient in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. While there he was introduced to the Scots writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Born within a…