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    A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
    A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
    A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
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    A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

    By Peter Bevelin

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    A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes is a book for those who want to improve their thinking. It is a practical and enjoyable book that tells in a short-easy-to-read way about what we all can learn from Sherlock Holmes. Peter Bevelin has distilled Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes into bite-sized principles and key quotes. This book will appeal to both Sherlock fans as well as those who want to think better. It contains useful and timeless methods and questions applicable to a variety of important issues in life and business. We could all benefit from A few lessons from Sherlock Holmes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMX Publishing
    Release dateAug 12, 2013
    ISBN9781780924496
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    A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes - Peter Bevelin

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    Introduction

    Characters

    Arthur Conan Doyle - Scottish physician and writer, most remembered for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes (1859 - 1930)

    Joseph Bell - Scottish professor of clinical surgery (1837 - 1911) and Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes - A London-based fictional detective

    Dr. John Watson - A fictional character and Holmes’s assistant

    C. Auguste Dupin - A fictional detective in stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

    Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke - A fictional detective and forensic scientist in stories by R. Austin Freeman (1862 - 1943)

    Francis Bacon - English scientist and philosopher (1561 - 1626)

    Claude Bernard - French physiologist (1813 - 1878)

    Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Roman encyclopedist, known for his extant medical work (25 BC - ca 50)

    Jean-Martin Charcot - French neurologist and professor of pathology (1825 - 1893)

    Georges Cuvier - French naturalist and zoologist (1769 - 1832)

    Charles Robert Darwin - English naturalist and writer (1809 - 1882)

    Benjamin Jowett - British classical scholar (1817 - 1893)

    James Alexander Lindsay - Irish professor of medicine (1856 - 1931)

    Thomas McCrae - American professor of medicine and colleague of Sir William Osler (1870 - 1935)

    Michel de Montaigne - French statesman and author (1533 - 1592)

    William Osler - Canadian physician (1849 -1919)

    Louis Pasteur - French chemist and microbiologist (1822 - 1895)

    Charles Sanders Peirce - American scientist and philosopher (1839 - 1914)

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - American physician and author (1809 - 1894)

    Some background

    Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle

    The most notable of the characters whom I met was one Joseph Bell, surgeon at the Edinburgh Infirmary. Bell was a very remarkable man in body and mind...He was a very skillful surgeon, but his strong point was diagnosis, not only of disease, but of occupation and character...I had ample chance of studying his methods....It is no wonder that after the study of such character I used and amplified his methods when in later life I tried to build up a scientific detective who solved cases on his own merits and not through the folly of the criminal. (A.C. Doyle; Memories and Adventures)

    Sherlock Holmes is the literary embodiment, if I may so express it, of my memory of a professor of medicine at Edinburgh University. (A.C. Doyle; Teller of Tales)

    I thought of my old teacher Joe Bell, of his eagle face, of his curious ways of his eerie trick of spotting details. If he were a detective he would surely reduce this fascinating business to something nearer an exact science. I would try it if I could get this effect. (A.C. Doyle; Memories and Adventures)

    In a letter to Dr. Bell, Doyle wrote

    It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes, and though in the stories I have the advantage of being able to place [the detective] in all sorts of dramatic positions, I do not think that his analytical work is in the least an exaggeration of some effects which I have seen you produce in the out-patient ward. Round the

    centre of deduction and inference and observation which I heard you inculate I have tried to build up a man who pushed the things as far as it would go - further occasionally - and I am so glad that the result has satisfied you, who are the critic with the most right to be severe. (Joseph Bell; Dr. Joe Bell)

    Dr. Bell wrote on Doyle

    I always regarded him as one of the best students I ever had. He was exceedingly interested always upon anything connected with diagnosis, and was never tired of trying to discover all those little details which one looks for. (Joseph Bell; Joseph Bell: An Appreciation by an Old Friend)

    The reader may wonder why I involve quotes from medicine. Professor Bell may provide an answer

    The experienced physician and the trained surgeon every day, in their examinations of the humblest patient, have to go through a similar process of reasoning, quick or slow according to the personal equations of each, almost automatic in the experienced man, laboured and often erratic in the tyro, yet requiring just the same simple requisites, senses to notice facts, and education and intelligence to apply them. (Dr. Joseph Bell; The Bookman)

    Dr. Conan Doyle’s education as a student of medicine taught him how to observe, and his practice, both as a general practitioner and a specialist, has been a splendid training for a man such as he is, gifted with eyes, memory, and imagination. Eyes and ears which can see and hear, memory to record at once and to recall at pleasure the impressions of the senses, and an imagination capable of weaving a theory or piecing together a broken chain or unraveling a tangled clue, such are implements of his trade to a successful diagnostician. (Dr. Joseph Bell; The Bookman)

    Medical Professor McCrae adds

    We have such problems as part of our daily task and our work may be regarded as much like that of the criminal detective. He has a general knowledge of the members of the criminal class; we of disease in general. He knows

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