6:53 PM
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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(Oh, if it were only true! ;)
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“When the American actor William Gillette wrote the first stage play about Holmes, he sent a telegram to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking: ‘May I marry Holmes?’ Conan Doyle wired back: ‘Marry him or murder him or do what you like with him.’...
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"A wonderful instrument called the stethoscope, invented a few months ago ... is now in complete vogue in Paris."
(London Times December 19, 1824)
"A wonderful instrument called the stethoscope, invented a few months ago ... is now in complete vogue in Paris."
(London Times December 19, 1824)
