#Scottish #author and #physician whose #fictional #detective, #SherlockHolmes, emulates the #scie…
#Scottish #author and #physician whose #fictional #detective, #SherlockHolmes, emulates the #scientist, diligently searching through data to make sense of it. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
His medical degree was awarded at the University of #Edinburgh, where he studied under noted surgeon Joseph Bell. After serving as the doctor on an Arctic whaling ship, he practiced in #England for a short time as a physician, with little income. So he turned to #writing. He was active as a #socialreformer, and spoke to the Committee on the Daylight Saving Bill in 1908 advocating its adoption.
Later in life he was a convert to #spiritualism, and requested burial in an upright position in the garden of his home.
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