In this issue, we remember the life and work of Dr. Howard Fischer (1947–2024). Cultured, devoted, and versatile, Dr. Fischer contributed to almost all sections of our journal, covering an astounding variety of subjects and displaying extraordinary knowledge of medicine, culture, and life in general across upwards of 180 articles. A select few are featured below.
Remembering Dr. Howard Fischer
| Agatha Christie’s poisons: Better dying through chemistry (Fall 2023) Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox (Winter 2021) The surgeon’s photo of the Loch Ness monster (Summer 2022) Chinese footbinding: A millennium of mutilation (Summer 2022) The Warsaw ghetto hunger study (Winter 2022) |
| Of lice and men (Winter 2023) When the FBI investigated William Carlos Williams (Winter 2022) “Phossy jaw”: An industrial horror story (Summer 2022) “The trial” of Dr. Spock (Winter 2022) The fainting medical student (Winter 2023) |
Great neurologists
Jean-Martin Charcot
Joseph Babinski
Moritz Romberg
Charles Symonds
Pierre Marie
Kinnier Wilson
James Parkinson
Jules Dejerine
Theophile Alajouanine
Duchenne de Boulogne
William Richard Gowers
Gordon Holmes
Russell Brain
Francis Walshe
William John Adie
Jean Cruveilhier
Howard H. Tooth
Derek Denny-Brown
Macdonald Critchley
John Hughlings Jackson
ISSN 2155-3017