Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children

  • Great Ormond Street and JM Barrie

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden James Matthew Barrie (1860–1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He wrote about thirty novels and twenty plays. He is best known for his 1904 play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, which later became the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy. When Barrie was six years old, his brother…

  • Sir George Frederick Still (1868-1941): the constant pediatrician

    Joseph deBettencourtChicago, Illinois, United States Coursing through the heart of Salisbury, a historic cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, are a number of clear and cool rivers.  The water of these rivers runs through layers of chalk bedrock, purifying and alkalizing the water.  These rivers emerge as springs, percolating through the rock and running down the…