I am quite enjoying this recent New York Times series of columns by medical professionals called ‘Cases’. This one is a depiction of quaint medical ingenuity, 1956-style. Of course, for my money, it does not hold a candle to the best stories of medical ingenuity, Burton Roueché’s Annals of Medical Detection from the New Yorker of decades past. I was surprised to learn that one of the most memorable of Roueché’s stories, “Eleven Blue Men” had been resurrected (poorly) as the basis for that new medical investigation series CSI clone on network television (I didn’t watch it…).