Abstract:The links between neurology and the nineteenth century novel have long been a source of scholarly interest but connections with detective fiction have only recently begun to be explored 1,2,3 . Forensic medicine and neurology both emerged as distinct specialties in the middle of the nineteenth century and some of the early neurologists like Brouardel in Paris and Ferrier in England held joint appointments between the two disciplines 3,4 . Many authors of crime novels such as Edgar Allan Poe (detective Auguste … Show more
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