Volume 13, Issue 1

Monet’s illnesses: beyond cataracts, Sally Metzler

The dream of the uterus, F. Gonzalez-Crussi

Traditional obstetrics in Isaan, Thailand, Khwan Phusrisom

Cloaked in white, Stacey Maslow

“Do I look gay to you?”, Elena Hill

“Looking at … Looking away”: a challenging and vital skill, Florence Gelo

Zachary Taylor: assassination or a bad bowl of cherries?, Kevin R. Loughlin

Teddy Roosevelt: did a speech really save his life?, Kevin R. Loughlin

In praise of swimming: from Benjamin Franklin to Oliver Sacks, James L. Franklin

Mary Niles and the Canton rats, Edward McSweegan

Carlos J. Finlay: the mosquito man, Enrique Chaves-Carballo

The literary breakdown in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Carol-Ann Farkas

Ahab’s gift: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the meaning of pain, Xi Chen

Robert Schumann’s hand injury, James L. Franklin

Sir Victor Horsley’s fatal blind spot, Faraze A. Niazi, Jack E. Riggs

William Cullen (1710-1790), George Dunea

Thomas Henry Huxley, JMS Pearce

Conjoined twins: art, ethics, and the media, John Raffensperger

Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie Mayo, John Raffensperger

Thomas Keith; pioneer photographer and pioneer surgeon, Iain Macintyre

Vignettes and Briefs

Claude Bernard, one of the greatest scientists

Ford Madox Brown: his model and his medical grandfather

Lovis Corinth and the sick father

Erasistratus

Human heart in Descartes’s De Homine

The central nervous system of the leech

Staining the cells of the nervous system

Saint Elisabeth, a saintly nurse

Mary Putnam Jacobi, advocate for women in society and medicine

Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, first British woman doctor

William Bell: photographed injured veterans

John of Arderne, founder of English surgery

Atlas of head sections

A physician and a pregnant patient

Jean Marie Poiseuille: physics and mathematics

Beauty actualized, Vincent P. De Luise