Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: William Tierney

  • The wartime chemist

    William TierneyCleveland, Ohio, United States My great-grandfather was a four-star general. During the First World War, he was a commander in the trenches near Flanders when the first chlorine-gas impregnated shells fell from German skies, giving birth to a new era of wartime trauma. He was a chemist, trained at West Point in the arts…