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An International Humanities Journal: Uniting Health and Medicine with Culture An International Humanities Journal: Uniting Health and Medicine with Culture.

02/26/2026

Court physician Erasistratus of Alexandria (304–250 BC) described the valves of the heart and concluded that the heart functioned as a pump. He also made the diagnosis of “love sickness” in the ailing Antiochus by noting that his pulse quickened whenever the object of his affections entered the room: http://bit.ly/2SDWiMW

02/25/2026

Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) conceived the idea of evolution by natural selection entirely independently of Charles Darwin. A man of many talents, he was an explorer, collector, naturalist, geographer, anthropologist, and fearless social commentator: http://bit.ly/3dMWxnS

02/23/2026

Hieronymus Bosch’s painting, The Stone Operation (ca. 1488), depicts a surgeon, dressed in a reddish robe that marked his profession, removing something from the head of a man. Was such a stone operation ever actually ever performed, or rather, was it a metaphor for the cure of madness and stupidity? And why is the surgeon wearing a funnel hat? Read more by Dr. Laurinda Dixon: http://bit.ly/3K0ui17

02/20/2026

Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) straddled the fin de siècle. With his brush, he preserved an American counterculture for posterity. He contributed scientific papers and harbored a passionate, paranoid fear of germs. His variegated oeuvre reflects his era’s medical and religious culture, as well as American environmentalism. Read more by Dr. Gregory Rutecki: http://bit.ly/3dznzz9

02/19/2026

Medieval teen king Baldwin IV not only surmounted disabling neurological impairment but challenged the stigma of leprosy, remarkably continuing to rule until his premature death aged twenty-three. Read more by Dr. John J. Turner: http://bit.ly/3c1YCvS

02/18/2026

Did the model for Albrecht Dürer’s praying hands suffer from diabetes mellitus? It has been suggested that the bent little finger on the right hand, identified as a possible instance of Dupuytren’s contracture, also supports the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Read more by Drs. William R. Albury & George M. Weisz: https://bit.ly/3MqsioJ

02/17/2026

Before the Beatles, before Elvis, there was Franz Liszt, whose 1844 piano concert in Berlin shocked the musical world and gave rise to the term and medical condition of “Lisztomania.” Swooning women fought for his handkerchiefs, the silk gloves from his enormous hands, even the discarded butts of his ci**rs. Read more by Dr. Elizabeth Colledge: http://bit.ly/3zK2x9x

02/16/2026

The Walter Reed Hospital was named after Major Walter Reed (1851–1902), the physician who led the team that confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than by direct physical contact—the original theory proposed by Cuban doctor Juan Carlos Finlay. Read more by Dr. Wilson Engel III: http://bit.ly/2LxO9dh

02/14/2026

What caused the death of Oliver Cromwell? The consensus is that he died from malaria, which was common at the time in northern Europe. Some historians, however, believe it was an overwhelming infection from urinary tract obstruction by kidney or bladder stones. http://bit.ly/2Se92co

02/13/2026

Alexander Monro primus (1697–1767), Edinburgh Chair of Anatomy, rented a house with 6 beds for the sick poor that became the Edinburgh Infirmary, lectured in English rather than Latin, and published the Anatomy of the Human Bones in 1726, so popular that it ran 7 editions. http://bit.ly/2KxECkU

02/12/2026

Music played second fiddle to medicine in the life of Dr. Alexander Borodin (1833-1887). He remarked he was almost ashamed when his musical activities took him away from medicine and chemistry. Yet he composed beautiful music; among his masterpieces is the opera Prince Igor. http://bit.ly/2DZjUYy

02/11/2026

Bernardino Ramazzini of Capri (1633-1714), founder of occupational and industrial medicine, promoted the belief that one’s occupation or environment could cause disease. He encountered strong resistance from the adherents of the ancient Galeno-humoral theories. Read more by Dr. Luciano Daliento: http://bit.ly/2FBKSWV

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