Some interesting Holmes references in "House, M.D."

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The character Gregory House in the TV show "House, M.D." is based in part on Sherlock Holmes.  My wife and I are watching our way through this series and I noticed some very interesting Holmes references in the episode "Joy to the World" (season 5, episode 11).

House receives as a Christmas gift a copy of the book "A Manual of the Operations of Surgery," by Joseph Bell, M.D.  Bell, of course, was Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for the character of Sherlock Holmes.  This is the real title of a book that Bell actually wrote.

In the same episode Dr. Wilson also mentions a patient that House once fell for: a woman named Irene Adler.  She had some sort of disease that House could not diagnose.  She turned out to be fake, as it happens, but the Adler reference was delicious!