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The Scottish Surgeon Behind Sherlock Holmes
Original: Meet the real-life Scottish surgeon who inspired Sherlock Holmes. Via @arstechnica #Books 📖 #History ⌛ #Scotland 🏴
An Ars Technica feature profiles Joseph Bell, the real-life Scottish surgeon whose diagnostic flair inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Doyle met Bell while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where Bell amazed students by deducing patients' occupations and histories from small physical details. Readers are sharing the piece, delighting in the history behind literature's most famous detective.
Why now: A widely shared history piece retelling the real medical inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes is circulating among book and history readers.
Joseph BellArthur Conan DoyleSherlock HolmesUniversity of EdinburghScotland
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