title: Sherlock Holmes' methods of deductive reasoning applied to medical diagnostics.
abstract: Having patterned the character of Sherlock Holmes after one of his professors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, himself a physician, incorporated many of the didactic qualities of the 19th century medical diagnostician into the character of Holmes. In this paper I explore Holmes's techniques of deductive reasoning and their basis in 19th and 20th century medical diagnostics.
mesh_terms: D003933:Diagnosis / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008128:Logic