Volume 13, Issue 2

April 1, 2021

Frontispiece

Medicean optics: Raffaello’s Portrait of Pope Leo X, Vincent P. de Luise

The Sorokdo National Hospital of South Korea, Lucy Eum

Anatomical descriptions in the Iliad, Maria Chicco

Doris Unland: surgical nurse extraordinaire, Frederic Grannis

Too many doctors: the death of Friedrich III, Nicolas Roberto Robles

Intubation incarceration: a true tale of torture, Abram Gabriel

Sherlock Holmes on COVID-19 associated perilous boredom, Daniel M. Gelfman

Death, disease, and palliation in opera, Lea C. Dacy, Eelco F. M. Wijdicks

Mental illness, the supernatural, and gender in Pakistan, Sualeha Siddiq Shekhani

Tobias and the Angel—miracle or medical?, Elizabeth College

Robert E Lee’s myocardial infarction: did it impact Gettysburg?, Lloyd Klein

John Hunter, Harvey Cushing, and acromegaly, Kevin R. Loughlin

Walter Kempner (1903–1997) and his rice diet, George Dunea

Multiple sclerosis: early descriptions, JMS Pearce

Dr. Sabina Spielrein: consequences of feminism and love, Irving Rosen

Wet nursing: a historical perspective, Mariella Scerri

Jack London’s cloudy crystal ball, Edward McSweegan

Sergei Rachmaninoff: the dichotomy of life and music, Michael Yafi, Chaden Yafi

Vignettes and Briefs

Hospitals in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516)

Crawford W. Long, first use of ether anesthesia

A white horse painted with purple spots

Tuttle’s Family Elixir

Steam powered machine to pull a tooth

The consultation or last hope, by Thomas Rowlandson (1808)

An interrupted dissection

Christ at the bedside

Sir Patrick Manson—“Father of Tropical Medicine”

Gulliver at Luggnagg – learning about the immortal struldbrugs (abridged)

The Girl with a Pearl Earring—a vanitas?, James Lindesay

The trouble with the belly button, Tonse N. K. Raju

Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox, Howard Fischer

No complaints, only symptoms, Peter Arnold

Lucid interval, Emma Manuel, Eshwar Rajesh

The novice, Charles Halsted

From here, Rasa Rafie

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