Volume 13, Issue 1 January 6, 2021 Volume 13, Issue 1 – Winter 2021 ISSN 2155-3017 For information and announcements visit At a glance Readers are invited to enjoy this selection of articles for the new year. 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
