A Better Source for Harry\u27s Gangrene: Medical Literature and The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Scholarship shows that Hemingway translated some of what he read in the Journal of American Medical Association during the spring of 1919 into fiction written across the 1920s. Roger Pearson hypothesized that this JAMA reading also provided source material for descriptions of the writer Harry\u27s gangrene in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, written in 1936. However, textual analysis shows that Hemingway used other medical literature in composing the story. This finding further illuminates Hemingway\u27s use of source materials in writing The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and it offers an opportunity to reassess Harry\u27s behavior in the story