Volume 5 Issue 1 – Winter 2013

January 30, 2017

Volume 5, Issue 1 – Winter 2013 ISSN 2155-3017

Published in Chicago by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine

Sweating sickness

In this issue the reader will learn why the real Baron von Munchausen never rode to the moon on a cannonball; why his name is linked to a psychiatric disorder; and why a benevolent physician invented the guillotine. He may read about the sweating sickness, Nobel Prize winners, Boccaccio and Jules Verne, foot-binding, and fairies kidnapping babies. There are tours to hospitals in London and Siena, to the art of Domenico di Bartolo, Lavinia Fontana, and Quentin Massys, and stops at a sweet and sour column called Hektorade.

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Feature Articles

Munchausen syndrome by proxy …. Nereida Esparza

The doctor and the baron …. George Dunea

The sweating sickness in Tudor England …. Philip R. Liebson

Medical History

Early days of the Nobel Prize …. Juan–Carlos Argüelles

Dr. Wedekind’s son: a Frank story …. Frank A. Wollheim
Thomas Linacre (1460-1524) …. Patrick Guinan

Dr. Guillotin (1738–1814)—reformer and humanitarian

Art and Medicine

Art and medicine in Renaissance Siena …. Sally Metzler