GoKawiilNew biography traces Sherlock Holmes to surgeon Joseph Bell of Edinburgh
Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris has published a biography, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, about Joseph Bell, the University of Edinburgh surgeon who taught Arthur Conan Doyle and inspired his famous detective. The book describes Bell's unusual diagnostic method of deducing a patient's occupation, habits and ailments purely from observation. Fitzharris previously wrote The Butchering Art and The Facemaker, and has also made documentaries and a children's book on medical history.