William Osler and Arthur Conan Doyle Versus the Antivivisectionists: Some Lessons From History for Today

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930.

Dr Arthur Conan Doyle: the first portfolio GP?

Many readers instantly associate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with his literary genius in creating the fictional detective duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Yet, delving more deeply, he practised as an apothecary and GP in Portsmouth and Plymouth, over a century ago (1882–1890). Around this time, he penned three short stories, Crabbe’s Practice1 (1884), Round the Red Lamp2 (1894), and The Stark Munr...

Neurological contributions from William Osler.

William Osler was one of the most remarkable clinicians worldwide, and his teachings in medical practice remain until the present days. Although Osler had never considered himself a neurologist, he contributed with clinical and pathological descriptions of numerous neurological diseases. He performed more than 800 autopsies studies of the nervous system and published over 200 articles in the fi...

ConanDoyle-neg: Annotation of negation in Conan Doyle stories

In this paper we present ConanDoyle-neg, a corpus of stories by Conan Doyle annotated with negation information. The negation cues and their scope, as well as the event or property that is negated have been annotated by two annotators. The inter-annotator agreement is measured in terms of F-scores at scope level. It is higher for cues (94.88 and 92.77), less high for scopes (85.04 and 77.31), a...

The Chief: Doctor William Osler

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