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

02/03/2026

Using bacteria to treat cancer can be traced to the ‘St. Peregrine tumor, named after the priest Peregrine Laziozi (ca. 1265–1345), who underwent spontaneous cancer regression after suffering wound infections. Read more by Andy Tay: http://bit.ly/2rf8cyt

02/02/2026

Frescoes by Sienese Renaissance artist Domenico Di Bartolo (active 1420-1444) illuminate daily life in one of Europe’s oldest hospitals, the Ospedale di Santa Maria della Scala. Situated across from the magnificent Gothic Siena Cathedral, the Ospedale operated until the 1990s. The building now serves as a magnificent museum of Sienese art and history. http://bit.ly/2m3g6xt

02/01/2026

Branwell Brontë, brother of the three Brontë sisters, was intelligent as a boy but faced several setbacks. He fell into drink and o***m, once set fire to his bed, had delirium tremens, and finally died of advanced pulmonary TB in 1848. Here is Brontë's caricature of himself lying in bed and being summoned by death. http://bit.ly/3MUGMr6

01/31/2026

Ogino Ginko (1851-1913) was married by her family at the age of 16 and contracted gonorrhea from her gallivanting husband, whom she divorced. She was so rudely humiliated by the male physicians who treated her that she decided to become a doctor herself and was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan. http://bit.ly/392tlYe

01/30/2026

Mesmerism, (or animal magnetism), is named after the Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), who claimed that a universal fluid determined all health. By manipulating this secret fluid, Mesmer could put patients in a state of peaceful sedation, likely an example of clinical hypnosis. Read more by Dr. Tyler B. Rouse: http://bit.ly/4q0eD5h

01/29/2026

Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) was a German surgeon and anatomist. In 1711, he described acute appendicitis in detail and suggested that it be treated, but that was some years before abdominal surgery was possible. Read the history of treating appendicitis by Jayant Radhakrishnan and Nathaniel Koo: http://bit.ly/3sARyLK

01/28/2026

In Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) weaves the horrors of the Great War, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and the near-death experience of a young woman in love with a doomed American soldier into a memorable novella. Read more by Cristóbal S. Berry-Cabán: http://bit.ly/3sy8tyA

01/27/2026

Caleb Parry, a cultivated physician with wide interests, in 1786 first described hyperthyroidism or exophthalmic goiter, often called Graves’ in the US and UK, or Basedow’s disease in Europe. He showed “a relentless spirit of inquiry,” and gave good accounts of tetanus, rabies, and angina pectoris. http://bit.ly/3wt5Q2l

01/26/2026

The great Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a chemist, botanist, humanist, and physician, lived at a time when medicine was somewhat like witchcraft, and physicians dressed in black and wearing gold chains prescribed bleeding, cupping, vigorous emetics, enemas, purging, quaint diets, and extracts of mummy. http://bit.ly/3t27PK7

01/25/2026

What was the cause of the Athenian plague (430–426 BCE)? Thucydides, a survivor of the plague, suggested it originated from Ethiopia. Recent DNA evidence from a mass grave suggests typhoid fever. Overcrowding contributed to its spread. Physicians were often affected, and survivors acquired immunity. Read more by Patrick Bell: http://bit.ly/39oHsnG

01/24/2026

What if this world around us were just an illusion constructed in one’s head? asks the neuroscientist David Eagleman. What if the real world has no smell or taste or sound or color, and if you could perceive reality as it is really out there, you wouldn’t recognize it at all? Read more by Jaleed Gilani: http://bit.ly/3vH9eGo

01/23/2026

French hematologist Jean Bernard described in 1967 the Syndrome “de Lasthenie de Ferjol,” an iron deficiency anemia found mostly in young women, caused by repeatedly drawing their blood by venipuncture, a self-harm behavior. The name of the syndrome was inspired by the heroine of the story “Une Histoire sans nom” by Jules Amedee Barbey d’Aurevilly, a nineteenth-century French novelist. Read more by Krishna Badami: http://bit.ly/3EFZnEM

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