The Surgeon Evgueni Vasilievich Pavlov in the Operating Theater, by Ilya Repin, 1888. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Medicine

Volume II, Number 4 | fall 2009

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Anatomy of the heart; And she had a heart!; Autopsy, by Enrique Simonet, 1890.

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Dissection

By Meehan Crist

Medical students are forced to change their perceptions of the dead. There is a human instinct that must be overcome to stick knives and fingers into human flesh.

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Contagion

A brief history of malaria, leprosy, and smallpox.

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When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”

—Pausanias, c. 450 BC
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