Tag: Victorian age

The most enduring fictional character in literature, Sherlock Holmes, created by a physician

Marshall LichtmanRochester, New York, United States My colleague and friend, Professor Seymour I. Schwartz, a distinguished surgeon and academician, has chronicled the careers of over 100 physicians who were notable writers in his monograph From Medicine to Manuscript: Doctors with a Literary Legacy.1 These physician-writers ranged from Maimonides to John Locke to John Keats to…

September 2, 2020
A letter from George Boole and Victorian attitudes towards pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding

C. Anthony RyanDesmond MacHaleYvonne CohenCork, Ireland In 2015, two cities celebrated the 200th anniversary of George Boole’s birth: the City of Lincoln, England where he was born, and Cork City, Ireland, where he died and was buried. Boole was a professor of mathematics at what was then Queen’s College, Cork (now University College Cork), in…

January 27, 2017

The most enduring fictional character in literature, Sherlock Holmes, created by a physician