On April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln succumbed to a gunshot wound from the evening before. The Assassination of President Lincoln and The Trial of The Conspirators is a detailed description compiled by Benn Pitman, the official reporter to the tribunal conducting the trial, of the events leading up to […]
While the Roman Empire held political supremacy, in almost all the higher ranges of the human mind the Greeks were held as supreme. As Greek city states lost their independence, they won a place as a world university. This is the classic study of their medical influence on Rome and […]
William Macmichael’s The Gold-Headed Cane, originally published in 1827, is the imaginative “autobiography” of one particular gold-headed cane owned by five eminent physicians; several held high office in the Royal College of Physicians. Initially reviews criticized the book because it concentrated disproportionately on illnesses of the royalty and aristocracy, “though […]
Cushing, a famous American surgeon, served with a Harvard unit of the American Ambulance in France in the spring of 1915. By 1918 he was a senior consultant in neurosurgery and operated on cases resulting from the final battles of World War I. The book is taken from his original […]
