Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Winter 2015

  • Billroth

    James L. FranklinChicago, Illinois, United States Presented in an expanded version to the Chicago Literary Club, January 25, 1982 In the days when medical wards were full of patients consuming milk and cream along with graded Sippy diets supplemented by Sippy powders (later tasteless aluminum gels and suspensions) and surgeons were busily removing gastric cancers…

  • Dominique-Jean Larrey, Napoleon’s army surgeon (1766–1842)

    I can hardly believe my own memory when I recall the old practitioners and professors who were still going round the hospitals when I mingled with the train of students that attended the morning visits…. The short, square, substantial man with iron-gray hair, ruddy face, and white apron is Baron Larrey, Napoleon’s favorite surgeon, the…

  • Abulcasis, the pharmacist surgeon

    Fadlurrahman ManafSurabaya, Indonesia Abu Al-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (AD 936–1013 AD), also known in the West as Abulcasis, was one of the most renowned surgeons of the Muslim era.1 Born in Zahra, six miles northwest of Cordova, he studied there, taught, and also practiced medicine and surgery.2 In addition to his knowledge of medicine…