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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.

Thomas De Quincey, author of “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” took o***m for stomach pains and found it enhanced...
12/27/2025

Thomas De Quincey, author of “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” took o***m for stomach pains and found it enhanced creativity, giving him fantastical visionary dreams. These became nightmares, unbearable terrors perpetually disrupting his sleep. http://bit.ly/37pLBqL

In Recipes Worth a Thousand Gold, (654 AD) Sun Simiao uses food therapy in the hope that sick people would first choose ...
12/26/2025

In Recipes Worth a Thousand Gold, (654 AD) Sun Simiao uses food therapy in the hope that sick people would first choose food over drugs. It is an eclectic mix of history, fantasy, ancient medicine, and concepts validated by modern science. http://bit.ly/2rhEc76

On 3 December 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in...
12/24/2025

On 3 December 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The recipient lived 18 days before dying of pneumonia. http://bit.ly/2ScT1ZA

At nine years old, French physician Pierre Bretonneau (1776–1859) could not read, yet he went on to describe diphtheria;...
12/23/2025

At nine years old, French physician Pierre Bretonneau (1776–1859) could not read, yet he went on to describe diphtheria; perform the first life-saving tracheotomy for it, and differentiate it from scarlet fever. He was also the first to think that bacteria caused disease, before Louis Pasteur’s germ theory. http://bit.ly/3w5rjx7

In Francisco de Goya’s painting, popularly known as "El Garrotillo," a man is trying to save a boy from being asphyxiate...
12/22/2025

In Francisco de Goya’s painting, popularly known as "El Garrotillo," a man is trying to save a boy from being asphyxiated by using his fingers to remove the diphtheria membrane from his throat. http://bit.ly/2MqTD6V

Ernest Hemingway experienced many medical mishaps before his death by su***de. This included everything from accidents t...
12/20/2025

Ernest Hemingway experienced many medical mishaps before his death by su***de. This included everything from accidents to the effects of alcoholism. But is it possible that hereditary hemochromatosis contributed to his health issues? http://bit.ly/3mvk2Tv

In July 1893, President Grover Cleveland underwent, in secret on a yacht, the successful removal of a tumor of the jaw a...
12/19/2025

In July 1893, President Grover Cleveland underwent, in secret on a yacht, the successful removal of a tumor of the jaw and its replacement by a prosthesis. The tumor did not recur, and the President died in 1906 from a heart attack. http://bit.ly/37MVPB2

In 1846, following a severe measles outbreak in the Faroe Islands, the Danish government called on the young physician P...
12/18/2025

In 1846, following a severe measles outbreak in the Faroe Islands, the Danish government called on the young physician Peter Panum to investigate and control its spread. His observations are still taught in public health programs worldwide. http://bit.ly/3s9oOdg

Chocolatl, meaning “bitter water,” was the earliest form of chocolate, made from the seeds of the cocoa tree, and was co...
12/17/2025

Chocolatl, meaning “bitter water,” was the earliest form of chocolate, made from the seeds of the cocoa tree, and was consumed by the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations during sacrificial rituals to the gods and for medicinal use. http://bit.ly/3Je1UHn.

Second-guessing why General Robert Lee ordered Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg has long been a pastime of Civil War histo...
12/16/2025

Second-guessing why General Robert Lee ordered Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg has long been a pastime of Civil War historians. However, most modern authorities do not believe that the general’s strategic thinking during the battle was impaired by illness. Image of Lee: age 31, as Lieutenant of Engineers, U.S. Army. http://bit.ly/351lubx .

"I don’t know whether you understand that I have just been shot," Teddy Roosevelt announced on Oct. 14, 1912. The bullet...
12/15/2025

"I don’t know whether you understand that I have just been shot," Teddy Roosevelt announced on Oct. 14, 1912. The bullet had penetrated his overcoat, eyeglass case, and shirt. For years, the legend was that his folded 52-page speech had saved his life. http://bit.ly/37LZ2BG.

When composer Frédéric Chopin died in 1849, his heart was preserved in cognac and interred in a church in Warsaw; author...
12/13/2025

When composer Frédéric Chopin died in 1849, his heart was preserved in cognac and interred in a church in Warsaw; authorities today forbid examination. He was supposed to have died of lung disease (TB), but cardiac disease and even cystic fibrosis have been suggested. http://bit.ly/3gLpvTH

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