Tag: Zeynel Karcioglu
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Pig-tail probe
Zeynel Karcioglu Charlottesville, Virginia, United States A cartoon by the author comparing the tails and depicting the probe in question. I read with great interest Dr. Stanley Gutiontov’s article entitled “Pig man: pigs in medicine from Galen to transgenic xenotransplantation” in Hektoen International, and it reminded me of an amusing “pig-related” experience I had…
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Winslow Homer, the eye-surgeon
Zeynel A. Karcioglu Charlottesville, Virginia Water color painting of Winslow Homer entitled Adirondacks Guide (1892). Inset: Detail of the guide’s right eye showing the blue iris, black pupil and the corneal blade mark by the artist. Although the 19th Century American painter Winslow Homer has been hailed as a lover of the land because…
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Anastasius the “odd-eyes”
Zeynel Karcioglu Although Anastasius I was one of the most capable Byzantine emperors, he and his reign are little known or discussed in modernity (Figure 1). This may be due to his reign being overshadowed by the more dramatic rule of his close follower, Justinian. Becoming emperor in 491, Anastasius died at the age of…