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through "Who's Who" Din England,
that the person described MS follows is
the original Of the great detective,
Sherlock Holmes;
Joseph Bell, NJ d.. T. r. c. s. Edin-
hurgh consulting surgeon 10 the Royal
lnfrmary and Royal Hospital for Sick
Children. Member Of University Court
Edinburgh University born In Edn-
burgh In the year 1887 The eldest son
Of Benjamin Bell, surgeon, and of Ce-
ella Craigie. Married to Edith Kath-
crime, daughter Of the Honorable James
Erskine Murray. Went through the
ordinary course of a hospital surgeon at
Edinburgh Royal lnilrmary, from dres-
ser TO senior surgeon and consulting
surgeon. Twehty-three years QSI3-96l
editor Of the Edinburgh Medical Jour
nal.
Yet he Is the original Sherlock
Holmes--tho Edinburgh medical stu
dents ideal--who could tell patients
their habits, their occupations, nation
alty and often their names. and who
rarely II ever made mistake Otter
times he would call upon one OF the
students TO diagnose the cases for him.
Telling the house surgeon to usher In
new patient, he delighted in putting
the deductlye powers Of the student to
the test. with results generally anus
Ing. except to the poor student victim,
himself.
This Is Conan Doyle's description Of
Joseph Bell: "He would sit in the pa
tents waiting room with a face like
a red Indian and diagnose the people as
they came In, before even they opened
their mouths. He would tell them their
symptoms and would even give them
details OF their past life, and he would
hardly ever make a mistake.
What Edinburgh student Of Conan
Doyle's student years can fail to recog-
nize In the stoic-faced professor Joe
Bell the king OF deductionY
What Is the matter with this man,
sir?" he suddenly inquired Of tremb-
ling student. Come down. sir. and
look at him. No. You mustn't touch
him. Use your eyes, sir! Use your
ears, use your brain. your bump Of per-
ception, and use your powers of deduc-
tlon."
After looking at the patient, the en-
bryonlc Holmes blurted out; "Ilip-joint
disease, sir"
Hip nothing" Boil retorted. "The
mans limp Is not from his hip, but
from his foot, or rather from his feet.
Were you TO observe closely, you would
see that there are Sits, cut by a knife,
In those parts OF the shoes whore the
pressure Of the shoe IL greatest against
the foot. The man is q sufferer from
corns, Gentlemen, and has no hip trou-
bic at all. lie has not come here 10 be
treated for c0rns, gentlemen We are
not chlropodlsts. His trouble Is OF a
much mare serious nature. This Ia q
case Of chronic alcoholism, gentlemen,
The rublcund nose, the pufted, Moated
face, the bloodshot eyes, the tremuous
hands and twitChing face muscles, with
the quick pulsatlng temporal arteries,
all show this These reductions, gem
tlemen, must, however be confirmed by
absolute and concrete evidence, In this
instance my diagnosis IL confirmed by
the fact OF my seeing the neck Of a
whisky bottle protrudlng from the pa
TENTS right-h0nd coat pocket
From close observation and deduc-
ton, gentlemen, you can make cor.
rect diagnosis OF any and every case,
However never neglect To r0tlfy your
deductions to eubstautlate your diag-
nosis with the stethOscope, and by other
recognized and everyday methods Of
diagnosis"
one day IN the lecture thoater he
gave the students a long tax ON the
necessity FOR the members OF the mcdl-
cal profession Cultiyatlng their senses
sight. smell, taste and hearing Before
him on table stood a lorgc mmbltr
filed with a dark, amber-colorol liquId.
"Thls, gentlemen announced the
professor contains very potent drug.
To the taste Il ls intensely bitter II
Ia most offensive 10 the sense oi SMELL
Yet. as far MS the sense Of sight h COM