On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants

Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories.  On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants  presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody, and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross—are relevant to medical science and practice in the 21st century. Which physician was the inspiration for the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and what did he i