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ON THE COVER:

Colored lithograph by J. Matet (Paris, 1896). Illustration of “La Vie Incomplète” [The Incomplete Life] by Maurice Leblanc, a short story about the death of a married woman. The woman reclines in a chair, covered in a blanket, and stares upward. Her husband stands next to the chair and hovers over her.

Courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine, Images from the History of Medicine Division.