A consummate human being – wise, thoughtful, irrepressibly good-natured

l was sorry to read in the Scotsman of the recent death of Kenneth Calman. I was fortunate to meet  Ken. This was when he was giving a talk in Surgeon’s hall Edinburgh about his book ‘A Doctor’s Line’. Afterwards we chatted about our shared interest in the history of medicine and the humanities. What a fine lad o’pairts Scotland has lost.

Below, I share an old Hole Ousia post that I put together based on Ken Calman’s book:

Ken Calman (2)

Ken Calman (2a)

Ken Calman (3a)

Ken Calman (3b)

Ken Calman (3c)

Ken Calman (3d)

Ken Calman (4a)

Ken Calman (4b)

Ken Calman (9a1)

Ken Calman (9a2)

Ken Calman (9b)

Ken Calman (10)

Ken Calman (11)

Ken Calman (12)

Ken Calman (12a)

Ken Calman (13b)

Ken Calman (14a)

Ken Calman (14b)

Ken Calman (16a)

Ken Calman (16b)

Ken Calman (17b)

Ken Calman (18a)

Ken Calman (21b William Tennant Gairdner)

Ken Calman (32)

Ken Calman (33a)

Ken Calman (34a)

Ken Calman (36b)

Ken Calman (39a)

Ken Calman (47)

Ken Calman (50 Rabbie Burns)

Ken Calman (70a Peter Pan)

Ken Calman (70b Peter Pan)

Ken Calman (73 A window in Thrums)

Ken Calman (76a Quackleben)

Ken Calman (76b Quackleben)

Ken Calman (80a)

Ken Calman (80b)

Ken Calman (82)

Ken Calman (90a Specialisation)

Ken Calman (90b Specialisation)

Ken Calman (91 The narrator or the Professor)

Ken Calman (96a)

Ken Calman (96b)

Ken Calman (99 MacDiarmid, had Feynman read)

Ken Calman (102)

Ken Calman (103a Medical antisyzygy)

Ken Calman (103c Medical antisyzygy)

Ken Calman (103e Medical antisyzygy)

Ken Calman (104 There is still much to read, to learn and to enjoy)

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