Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: thyroid abnormality

  • Robert Louis Stevenson and hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

    Sally Metzler Chicago, Illinois, USA   Fig. 1: Edward Joseph F. Timmons, Stevenson House, ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Collection of the Union League Club Chicago. Famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to Monterey, California, in 1879 and lived for three months on the second floor of a white adobe boarding house called…