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

Realdo Colombo, the highly influential professor of anatomy at Padua and Rome, believed that the liver was the center of...
11/29/2025

Realdo Colombo, the highly influential professor of anatomy at Padua and Rome, believed that the liver was the center of the circulatory system and that nutritive blood was sent from the liver to all parts of the body through the venous system. http://bit.ly/3L95cgI

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) had much to say about the preservation of health through personal habits of living and reg...
11/28/2025

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) had much to say about the preservation of health through personal habits of living and regular exercise. He took up swimming as a young man and pursued it well into his seventies. http://bit.ly/4p4d2fh

Pablo Picasso was 16 years old and not yet famous when he painted this work, "Science and Charity" (1897). His father, a...
11/27/2025

Pablo Picasso was 16 years old and not yet famous when he painted this work, "Science and Charity" (1897). His father, an artist himself, sat as a model. The baby was borrowed from a beggar woman, and the nun’s habit had also to be borrowed. http://bit.ly/32wuxMj

Alcatraz Hospital, famous for its infamous patients (among them Al Capone), was a hospital inside a maximum-security U.S...
11/26/2025

Alcatraz Hospital, famous for its infamous patients (among them Al Capone), was a hospital inside a maximum-security U.S. federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, which covers 22 acres and is only a little more than one mile from the San Francisco shoreline and the Golden Gate Bridge. http://bit.ly/3srShyb

The word “galvanize” derives from Dr. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), who studied electricity in animals. It means to stimula...
11/25/2025

The word “galvanize” derives from Dr. Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), who studied electricity in animals. It means to stimulate with a galvanic current, or to excite someone into taking action, or as a coat of iron or steel with a protective layer of zinc. http://bit.ly/3rbCkwo

Read the fascinating story of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. Schweitzer (1875-1965) paid particular...
11/24/2025

Read the fascinating story of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. Schweitzer (1875-1965) paid particular attention to treating those afflicted with leprosy and was among the first physicians to use dapsone for its treatment. http://bit.ly/3Hgo2Aa

In Moretto da Brescia's painting of The Nativity, the shepherd on the upper right appears to have a goiter. http://bit.l...
11/24/2025

In Moretto da Brescia's painting of The Nativity, the shepherd on the upper right appears to have a goiter. http://bit.ly/3rZ6BxL

The tropical plant guaicum, once used (ineffectively) to treat syphilis, was found by the Dutch chemist Izaak van Deen t...
11/22/2025

The tropical plant guaicum, once used (ineffectively) to treat syphilis, was found by the Dutch chemist Izaak van Deen to indicate the presence of blood (1864) and became widely used to diagnose gastrointestinal bleeding. http://bit.ly/3APgF0f .

Paul Revere (1735-1818), known for his midnight ride and famous warning “the British are coming!”, also played an instru...
11/21/2025

Paul Revere (1735-1818), known for his midnight ride and famous warning “the British are coming!”, also played an instrumental role in developing America’s medical emergency preparedness infrastructure, laying the groundwork for what later enabled Boston to respond to emergencies and safeguard the city. http://bit.ly/3Ggx4fg

In 1554, Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”), daughter of Henry VIII, proudly revealed that she was with child, but there was n...
11/20/2025

In 1554, Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”), daughter of Henry VIII, proudly revealed that she was with child, but there was never a baby. Eventually, she died in 1558 from what may have been cancer or some more obscure disease or even influenza. bit.ly/3Hc1MYc

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) first practiced medicine, treating the poor, and was also a physician to King Sigismund ...
11/19/2025

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) first practiced medicine, treating the poor, and was also a physician to King Sigismund of Poland. He studied the solar system and, in 1514, recognized that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was also a mathematician, astronomer, lawyer, theologian, linguist, and more. http://bit.ly/43DSmlH

Al Kindi (c.801-c.873) developed a scale to allow doctors to quantify the potency of their medication, introduced the In...
11/18/2025

Al Kindi (c.801-c.873) developed a scale to allow doctors to quantify the potency of their medication, introduced the Indian numerals to the Islamic and Christian world, and was a polymath known as “the Philosopher of the Arabs” http://bit.ly/2nN1b8x

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