A doctor enjoys Sherlock Holmes

“Nor must you find fault with me if I often give you what I have borrowed from my various reading, in the very words of the authors themselves” (Macrobius--trans. by Boswell).

“I hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A...

Curare should be employed only by experienced workers, for the muscles of respiration may become paralyzed, and unless mechanical respiration is given immediately, the patient w...

It is noteworthy that both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson maintained a nice mental balance even during periods of tremendous excitement and danger. A striking characteristic abo...

Several welcome allusions are made to the odors of flowers or of vegetation. The scent of flowers, gardens, greenhouses, trees, meadows, swamps, and the decay of autumn leaves o...

It appeared to have been fitted up as a chemical laboratory. A double line of glass-stoppered bottles was drawn up upon the wall opposite the door and the table was littered ove...

It is possible that people who are not familiar with the science of endocrinology might gain the impression that the administration of ape serum could produce the effects so viv...

When we read about large mammals, big-game hunting comes to mind, at least to the sportsman. Several allusions to this exciting and dangerous sport are found in the tales. In _T...

Let us now consider references to muscle physiology. Both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are portrayed as splendid athletes. In _The Hound of the Baskervilles_, Watson writes ab...

As might be expected, Dr. Watson found it necessary on several occasions to resort to morphine to alleviate pain. We find, for example, that when Kitty Winter, the cast-off mist...

=TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES= Simple typographical errors have been silently corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanc...