Author: Nick Howlett Publisher: ISBN: 9781804242391 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Arthur Conan Doyle was a GP before he became a writer. He uses his medical knowledge widely in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He bases the deductive skills of his hero detective on the diagnostic techniques a GP uses with a patient. He even gives Sherlock a GP sidekick. This all contributes to the enduring popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, over 130 years after the first story was published. An amazing 52 diseases feature in the Sherlock Holmes stories. This includes many that remain significant parts of a GP's workload today - diabetes, asthma, ischaemic heart disease, stroke. There are then other diseases that have largely died out in the UK due to advances in medical science - diphtheria, brain fever, rickets, tetanus. The Medical Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson takes a definitive look at how Conan Doyle uses these 52 diseases in the stories. It also gives a historical perspective on the Victorian understanding of the diseases, using the textbooks Conan Doyle would very likely have had sitting on his consulting room shelves.
Author: Alvin E. Rodin Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 536
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As well as a writer and creator of the famous Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also worked as a physician, and this book endeavours to document his medical facet. Medicine was often entwined into the detective stories, and the book also mentions his other science publications.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Top Five Books LLC ISBN: 1938938674 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1921 to 1927, features his last 12 mysteries, including the only two stories narrated by Sherlock Holmes himself-"The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane." This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes includes all 57 illustrations by Howard Elcock, Alfred Gilbert, and Frank Wiles as they appeared in the original Strand serials, as well as a complete Timeline of Sherlock Holmes Cases and a detailed author biography.
Author: Nick Howlett Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1804242411 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 439
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle was a GP before he became a writer. He uses his medical knowledge widely in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He bases the deductive skills of his hero detective on the diagnostic techniques a GP uses with a patient. He even gives Sherlock a GP sidekick. This all contributes to the enduring popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, over 130 years after the first story was published. An amazing 52 diseases feature in the Sherlock Holmes stories. This includes many that remain significant parts of a GP's workload today - diabetes, asthma, ischaemic heart disease, stroke. There are then other diseases that have largely died out in the UK due to advances in medical science - diphtheria, brain fever, rickets, tetanus. The Medical Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson takes a definitive look at how Conan Doyle uses these 52 diseases in the stories. It also gives a historical perspective on the Victorian understanding of the diseases, using the textbooks Conan Doyle would very likely have had sitting on his consulting room shelves.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 1190
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The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection oftales that have haunted generations of readers.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Collector's Library ISBN: 9781904633686 Category : Criminal investigation Languages : en Pages : 316
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.0000000000The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes contains Conan Doyle's last twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Compared with earlier collections these tales are darker, exploring such themes as treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity, and containing such gothic touches as a blood-sucking vampire and crypts at midnight. With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies, a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and an authority on Sherlock Holmes. He has written the Afterwords for all the Collector's Library Holmes volumes.
Author: Arthur Doyle Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 227
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It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round him at the scientific charts upon the wall, the acid-charred bench of chemicals, the violin-case leaning in the corner, the coal-scuttle, which contained of old the pipes and tobacco. Finally, his eyes came round to the fresh and smiling face of Billy, the young but very wise and tactful page, who had helped a little to fill up the gap of loneliness and isolation which surrounded the saturnine figure of the great detective.
Author: Carl Heifetz Publisher: Andrews UK Limited ISBN: 1787053113 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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The Sherlockian Canon, as prolific as it is, contains few accounts in which Mr. Holmes as his medical colleagues Drs. Watson and Verner, solve cases involving frightening medical conditions. It strikes me that many more such cases were successfully solved by Mr. Holmes and his associates. It is unlikely that Drs Watson and Verner would allow such mysteries remain unsolved. However, the likelihood of public fear nod panic has resulted in the stories being kept secret. Thanks to the current Verner family we have now been permitted to read Dr. Watson's narrative concerning these adventures.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 282
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'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide readers with the thrill of the chase.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 278
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of the new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by mind of Sherlock Holmes before the eyes of Watson.
Author: Nick Howlett
Author: Alvin E. Rodin
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Nick Howlett
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur Doyle
Author: Carl Heifetz
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle