Volume 7, Issue 2 – Spring 2015
Published in Chicago by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine
The doctor and the doll 
Reflections on medicine and art 
Fabricius Hildanus – father of German surgery
In this issue we feature articles about the prose of John Keats, Thomas De Quincy, and Michael Bulgakov, about university deans, the horrors of the black hole, medicine in ancient Assyria and Babylonia, Austrian peasants eating arsenic, doctors collecting coins, and many other compelling items.
Frontispiece
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Art Flashes
Bush medicine leaves, Rose Tasker
Reflections on medicine and art, Bojana Cokić
The doctor and the doll, Ravi Shankar
Saint Sebastian nursed by Saint Irene…, Sally Metzler -
Literary Vignettes
Where no birds sing: tuberculosis in…, Putzer Hung
Mysterious Muse, Juliet Beckman Hubbell
Thomas De Quincey and Confessions of…, Jared Griffin
Mikhael Bulgakov’s “The Steel Windpipe” in…, Michael Bloor -
Moments in History
The arsenic eaters of Styria, John Parascandola
Mingling medicine and medals, Ira L. Rezak
Masters, Lindstrom, and decanal adventures, Marshall A. Lichtman -
Antiquity
Medicine in ancient Nineveh, Hussain A. AL-SARDAR
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Doctors, Patients, and Diseases
When good doctors have bad , Lloyd W. Klein, MD
A fine notion, Ruth Z. Deming
The man who could not stop…, Ravi Shankar
Patients and society: the big divide…, J.M.S. Pearce -
Physicians of note
Benjamin Rush: physician, patriot, and polymath, Kevin Loughlin
Robert Todd: overlooking big achievements, Marie-Catherine Mousseau
Pierre Bretonneau, Aditi Sivaramakrishnan
Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder, Alex Ngo
Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, Chris Gilleard
Walter Campbell: more than a footnote, James Goodwin & Peter Kopplin
Alexander Gordon and puerperal fever, C. John Scott
Joseph Goldberger: epidemiology’s unsung hero, Adil Menon
Fabricius Hildanus – father of German…, George Dunea -
End of life
Lessons from the black hole, Columba Quigley
