Word: holmesian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sets out to write a thriller, the resulting fiction is bound to bristle with more obscure clues, mysterious ciphers and symbolic happenings than were ever conjured up by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So it is with Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, a Sherlock Holmesian fantasy in a medieval setting...
Indeed, the possible causes of back pain are so numerous that pinpointing them may pose an almost Holmesian diagnostic challenge. Says Orthopedist Edwin Guise of Henry Ford Hospital, physician for the Detroit Lions: "You have to think of everything from poor posture to cancer...