Joseph Bell

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Dr. Joseph Bell

Dr. Joseph Bell, M.D.[a 1], F.R.C.S. Eng[a 2], J.P.D.L., (2 December 1837 in Edinburgh, Scotland – 4 October 1911 in Milton Bridge, Midlothian, Scotland) was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh. He was also called Joe Bell.[1]

"Bell, best known for being Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, was a colleague of [Joseph] Lister at the Royal Infirmery in Edinburgh and was one of the first surgeons to adopt the antiseptic technique. Dr. Bell was especially interested in surgery on children, had a gentle touch, and in 1887 was appointed surgeon to the first surgical ward in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children."[2]

Circumcision promotion

In 1873, Bell claimed he cured several boys of bed wetting by circumcising them, so he recommended circumcision for intractable bed-wetting (see publication).

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Abbreviations

  1. [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Doctor of Medicine, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, the abbreviation MD is common.
  2. [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Royal College of Surgeons of England, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 October 2021. (Also abbreviated RCS England and sometimes RCS.)

References

  1. [Template fetch failed for https://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Template:POOLIconREFweb?action=raw: HTTP 500] Joseph Bell, The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
  2. REFbook Raffensperger JG: Children's Surgery: A Worldwide History. P. 106. Retrieved 13 October 2021.