Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-was Robert Louis Stevenson inspired by Horace Wells?
Identifieur interne : 000175 ( Main/Exploration ); précédent : 000174; suivant : 000176Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-was Robert Louis Stevenson inspired by Horace Wells?
Auteurs : Rini A. Vyas [Royaume-Uni] ; Sukumar P. Desai [États-Unis]Source :
- Journal of anesthesia history [ 2352-4529 ] ; 2015.
Abstract
It has been suggested that Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde derived inspiration from the real-life tragedy of the final days of Connecticut dentist Horace Wells, innovator of the clinical use of the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide. We examined Stevenson's letters, biographies, and other references in the literature, press, and online to determine whether any factual basis exists for Stevenson to be aware of Wells' life, and also if it played any role in creating the novel's plot. Stevenson was born in Scotland, several years after Wells had committed suicide in New York. Wells' life and death received widespread coverage in the northeastern United States, but there is no evidence that it was printed in newspapers or periodicals in England or Scotland. On the other hand, novelists of the period, psychologists, and the lay public were quite interested in the concept of split personalities and the dual nature of man, so these may have been natural substrates for the novel. There is evidence that Stevenson dreamt about episodes similar to those depicted in his novel. All claims to any relationship between Wells and the novel come from the United States, and none of them are backed by evidence. In the absence of evidence supporting a relationship between the behavior exhibited by Wells during his final days and any inspiration that Stevenson might have derived from it, we conclude that there is insufficient evidence to suggest any relationship between them.
DOI: 10.1016/j.janh.2014.11.008
PubMed: 25748369
Affiliations:
Links toward previous steps (curation, corpus...)
Le document en format XML
<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-was Robert Louis Stevenson inspired by Horace Wells?</title><author><name sortKey="Vyas, Rini A" sort="Vyas, Rini A" uniqKey="Vyas R" first="Rini A" last="Vyas">Rini A. Vyas</name><affiliation wicri:level="1"><nlm:affiliation>Medical Student, Leeds University Medical School, Leeds, UK.</nlm:affiliation><country xml:lang="fr">Royaume-Uni</country><wicri:regionArea>Medical Student, Leeds University Medical School, Leeds</wicri:regionArea><wicri:noRegion>Leeds</wicri:noRegion></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Desai, Sukumar P" sort="Desai, Sukumar P" uniqKey="Desai S" first="Sukumar P" last="Desai">Sukumar P. Desai</name><affiliation wicri:level="2"><nlm:affiliation>Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: sdesai@partners.org.</nlm:affiliation><country xml:lang="fr">États-Unis</country><placeName><region type="state">Massachusetts</region></placeName><wicri:cityArea>Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston</wicri:cityArea></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PubMed</idno><date when="2015">2015</date><idno type="RBID">pubmed:25748369</idno><idno type="pmid">25748369</idno><idno type="doi">10.1016/j.janh.2014.11.008</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Corpus">000180</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Main" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PubMed">000180</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Curation">000180</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Main" wicri:step="Curation">000180</idno><idno type="wicri:Area/Main/Exploration">000180</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en">Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-was Robert Louis Stevenson inspired by Horace Wells?</title><author><name sortKey="Vyas, Rini A" sort="Vyas, Rini A" uniqKey="Vyas R" first="Rini A" last="Vyas">Rini A. Vyas</name><affiliation wicri:level="1"><nlm:affiliation>Medical Student, Leeds University Medical School, Leeds, UK.</nlm:affiliation><country xml:lang="fr">Royaume-Uni</country><wicri:regionArea>Medical Student, Leeds University Medical School, Leeds</wicri:regionArea><wicri:noRegion>Leeds</wicri:noRegion></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Desai, Sukumar P" sort="Desai, Sukumar P" uniqKey="Desai S" first="Sukumar P" last="Desai">Sukumar P. Desai</name><affiliation wicri:level="2"><nlm:affiliation>Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: sdesai@partners.org.</nlm:affiliation><country xml:lang="fr">États-Unis</country><placeName><region type="state">Massachusetts</region></placeName><wicri:cityArea>Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston</wicri:cityArea></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Journal of anesthesia history</title><idno type="ISSN">2352-4529</idno><imprint><date when="2015" type="published">2015</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en">It has been suggested that Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde derived inspiration from the real-life tragedy of the final days of Connecticut dentist Horace Wells, innovator of the clinical use of the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide. We examined Stevenson's letters, biographies, and other references in the literature, press, and online to determine whether any factual basis exists for Stevenson to be aware of Wells' life, and also if it played any role in creating the novel's plot. Stevenson was born in Scotland, several years after Wells had committed suicide in New York. Wells' life and death received widespread coverage in the northeastern United States, but there is no evidence that it was printed in newspapers or periodicals in England or Scotland. On the other hand, novelists of the period, psychologists, and the lay public were quite interested in the concept of split personalities and the dual nature of man, so these may have been natural substrates for the novel. There is evidence that Stevenson dreamt about episodes similar to those depicted in his novel. All claims to any relationship between Wells and the novel come from the United States, and none of them are backed by evidence. In the absence of evidence supporting a relationship between the behavior exhibited by Wells during his final days and any inspiration that Stevenson might have derived from it, we conclude that there is insufficient evidence to suggest any relationship between them. </div></front></TEI><pubmed><MedlineCitation Status="PubMed-not-MEDLINE" Owner="NLM"><PMID Version="1">25748369</PMID><DateRevised><Year>2019</Year><Month>11</Month><Day>20</Day></DateRevised><Article PubModel="Print-Electronic"><Journal><ISSN IssnType="Print">2352-4529</ISSN><JournalIssue CitedMedium="Print"><Volume>1</Volume><Issue>1</Issue><PubDate><Year>2015</Year><Month>Jan</Month></PubDate></JournalIssue><Title>Journal of anesthesia history</Title><ISOAbbreviation>J Anesth Hist</ISOAbbreviation></Journal><ArticleTitle>Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-was Robert Louis Stevenson inspired by Horace Wells?</ArticleTitle><Pagination><MedlinePgn>18-24</MedlinePgn></Pagination><ELocationID EIdType="doi" ValidYN="Y">10.1016/j.janh.2014.11.008</ELocationID><ELocationID EIdType="pii" ValidYN="Y">S2352-4529(14)00009-7</ELocationID><Abstract><AbstractText>It has been suggested that Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde derived inspiration from the real-life tragedy of the final days of Connecticut dentist Horace Wells, innovator of the clinical use of the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide. We examined Stevenson's letters, biographies, and other references in the literature, press, and online to determine whether any factual basis exists for Stevenson to be aware of Wells' life, and also if it played any role in creating the novel's plot. Stevenson was born in Scotland, several years after Wells had committed suicide in New York. Wells' life and death received widespread coverage in the northeastern United States, but there is no evidence that it was printed in newspapers or periodicals in England or Scotland. On the other hand, novelists of the period, psychologists, and the lay public were quite interested in the concept of split personalities and the dual nature of man, so these may have been natural substrates for the novel. There is evidence that Stevenson dreamt about episodes similar to those depicted in his novel. All claims to any relationship between Wells and the novel come from the United States, and none of them are backed by evidence. In the absence of evidence supporting a relationship between the behavior exhibited by Wells during his final days and any inspiration that Stevenson might have derived from it, we conclude that there is insufficient evidence to suggest any relationship between them. </AbstractText><CopyrightInformation>Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.</CopyrightInformation></Abstract><AuthorList CompleteYN="Y"><Author ValidYN="Y"><LastName>Vyas</LastName><ForeName>Rini A</ForeName><Initials>RA</Initials><AffiliationInfo><Affiliation>Medical Student, Leeds University Medical School, Leeds, UK.</Affiliation></AffiliationInfo></Author><Author ValidYN="Y"><LastName>Desai</LastName><ForeName>Sukumar P</ForeName><Initials>SP</Initials><AffiliationInfo><Affiliation>Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: sdesai@partners.org.</Affiliation></AffiliationInfo></Author></AuthorList><Language>eng</Language><PublicationTypeList><PublicationType UI="D016428">Journal Article</PublicationType></PublicationTypeList><ArticleDate DateType="Electronic"><Year>2014</Year><Month>11</Month><Day>27</Day></ArticleDate></Article><MedlineJournalInfo><Country>United States</Country><MedlineTA>J Anesth Hist</MedlineTA><NlmUniqueID>101651624</NlmUniqueID><ISSNLinking>2352-4529</ISSNLinking></MedlineJournalInfo><CitationSubset>QIS</CitationSubset><KeywordList Owner="NOTNLM"><Keyword MajorTopicYN="N">Dr. Jekyll</Keyword><Keyword MajorTopicYN="N">Horace Wells</Keyword><Keyword MajorTopicYN="N">Mr. Hyde</Keyword><Keyword MajorTopicYN="N">Robert Louis Stevenson</Keyword><Keyword MajorTopicYN="N">Stevenson</Keyword></KeywordList></MedlineCitation><PubmedData><History><PubMedPubDate PubStatus="entrez"><Year>2015</Year><Month>3</Month><Day>10</Day><Hour>6</Hour><Minute>0</Minute></PubMedPubDate><PubMedPubDate PubStatus="pubmed"><Year>2015</Year><Month>3</Month><Day>10</Day><Hour>6</Hour><Minute>0</Minute></PubMedPubDate><PubMedPubDate PubStatus="medline"><Year>2015</Year><Month>3</Month><Day>10</Day><Hour>6</Hour><Minute>1</Minute></PubMedPubDate></History><PublicationStatus>ppublish</PublicationStatus><ArticleIdList><ArticleId IdType="pubmed">25748369</ArticleId><ArticleId IdType="pii">S2352-4529(14)00009-7</ArticleId><ArticleId IdType="doi">10.1016/j.janh.2014.11.008</ArticleId></ArticleIdList></PubmedData></pubmed><affiliations><list><country><li>Royaume-Uni</li><li>États-Unis</li></country><region><li>Massachusetts</li></region></list><tree><country name="Royaume-Uni"><noRegion><name sortKey="Vyas, Rini A" sort="Vyas, Rini A" uniqKey="Vyas R" first="Rini A" last="Vyas">Rini A. Vyas</name></noRegion></country><country name="États-Unis"><region name="Massachusetts"><name sortKey="Desai, Sukumar P" sort="Desai, Sukumar P" uniqKey="Desai S" first="Sukumar P" last="Desai">Sukumar P. Desai</name></region></country></tree></affiliations></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
EXPLOR_STEP=$WICRI_ROOT/Sante/explor/SuicidDentistV1/Data/Main/Exploration
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_STEP/biblio.hfd -nk 000175 | SxmlIndent | more
Ou
HfdSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Main/Exploration/biblio.hfd -nk 000175 | SxmlIndent | more
Pour mettre un lien sur cette page dans le réseau Wicri
{{Explor lien
|wiki= Sante
|area= SuicidDentistV1
|flux= Main
|étape= Exploration
|type= RBID
|clé= pubmed:25748369
|texte= Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-was Robert Louis Stevenson inspired by Horace Wells?
}}
Pour générer des pages wiki
HfdIndexSelect -h $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Main/Exploration/RBID.i -Sk "pubmed:25748369" \
| HfdSelect -Kh $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Main/Exploration/biblio.hfd \
| NlmPubMed2Wicri -a SuicidDentistV1
| This area was generated with Dilib version V0.6.39. |  |