Tag: ulcers
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Questioning immunology and the soul
Vani Ghai Pune, India Healing ulcers on the lower leg. The ulceration may have been due to varicose veins. Watercolor drawing by S. A. Sewell. Wellcome Collection. CC BY 4.0. The long and tiring battle with COVID has stimulated modern medicine to investigate new approaches to understanding the science of immunity. It has long…
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Coleridge and the albatross syndrome
Nicolás Roberto Robles Badajoz, Spain Figure 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Contemporary portrait. Public Domain. Via Wikimedia Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the tenth and last child of the vicar of Ottery Saint Mary near Devonshire, England, was born on October 21, 1772. In vivid letters recounting his early years he describes himself as “a genuine Sans…