Volume 13, Issue 1 January 6, 2021Volume 13, Issue 1 – Winter 2021 ISSN 2155-3017For information and announcements visit At a glance Frontispiece Monet’s illnesses: beyond cataracts, Sally MetzlerThe dream of the uterus, F. Gonzalez-CrussiTraditional obstetrics in Isaan, Thailand, Khwan PhusrisomCloaked in white, Stacey Maslow“Do I look gay to you?”, Elena Hill“Looking at … Looking away”: a challenging and vital skill, Florence GeloZachary Taylor: assassination or a bad bowl of cherries?, Kevin R. LoughlinTeddy Roosevelt: did a speech really save his life?, Kevin R. LoughlinIn praise of swimming: from Benjamin Franklin to Oliver Sacks, James L. FranklinMary Niles and the Canton rats, Edward McSweeganCarlos J. Finlay: the mosquito man, Enrique Chaves-CarballoThe literary breakdown in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Carol-Ann FarkasAhab’s gift: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the meaning of pain, Xi ChenRobert Schumann’s hand injury, James L. FranklinSir Victor Horsley’s fatal blind spot, Faraze A. Niazi, Jack E. RiggsWilliam Cullen (1710-1790), George DuneaThomas Henry Huxley, JMS PearceConjoined twins: art, ethics, and the media, John RaffenspergerDr. Will and Dr. Charlie Mayo, John RaffenspergerThomas Keith; pioneer photographer and pioneer surgeon, Iain Macintyre Vignettes and Briefs Claude Bernard, one of the greatest scientistsFord Madox Brown: his model and his medical grandfatherLovis Corinth and the sick fatherErasistratusHuman heart in Descartes’s De HomineThe central nervous system of the leechStaining the cells of the nervous systemSaint Elisabeth, a saintly nurseMary Putnam Jacobi, advocate for women in society and medicineSophia Louisa Jex-Blake, first British woman doctorWilliam Bell: photographed injured veteransJohn of Arderne, founder of English surgeryAtlas of head sectionsA physician and a pregnant patientJean Marie Poiseuille: physics and mathematicsBeauty actualized, Vincent P. De Luise
