Frontispiece
| Will DNA be the next invisible ink?, Edward Tabor Your worst experience with a physician, Matthew Wooten Of vermicide and vermifuge: A history of intestinal parasites at sea, Richard de Grijs Fashion-based medicine: A history of Western doctors’ dress, Shefali Sood |
| Ancient “achoo”: The photic sneeze response in Greek mythology, Saty Satya-Murti Fear of being buried alive, Howard Fischer A note on early microscopes, JMS Pearce Art, anhedonia, and family psychodynamics in the creativity of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Martin |
Vignettes
| The death of Socrates and common hemlock, Umut Akova The origins of the word “hospital”, Simon Wein A WWII artist remembered, Luciano Fiume |
Encore
| Restraint: A foot binding story, Daniel Enjay Wong Unlocking the secrets of a bohemian painting, Bernard Brabin |
| The plague of ergotism and the grace of God, Wilson Engel The physician’s guide to The Garden of Earthly Delights, Nora Fisher-Campbell |


Bronzino and the wages of sin
Distorting anatomy
The Crucifixion of Christ
A painting for services rendered?
Kleptomania
Margaret of Austria
A fashionable physician
The bitter potion
Portrait of a physician
Model for an artist
Portrait of a surgeon
Madonna and Child