Living Under the Shadow
This is the first of a series of articles by distinguished doctors who have learned to live with incurable disease. HENRY E. SIGERIST. M.D., one of the great medical historians of our time, was director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Leipzig from 1925 to 1932. whence he was called to Johns Hopkins. There he remained until his retirement because of hypertension. At present Dr. Sigerist lives in Switzerland, where he is completing his eight-volume History of Medicine, of which the first volume was published in 1951 by the Oxford University Press. The article which follows is from the book When Doctors Are Patients. In subsequent issues use shall hear from Dr. Fredric Wertham, the late Dr. Abraham Myerson, and others.