Doctor Watson and the Weather 11
The Anatomical Sherlock Holmes 19
“Brain Fever” and Sherlock Holmes 25
Curare and Sherlock Holmes 31
Sherlock Holmes and the Portuguese Man-of-War 35
Doctor Watson and Nervous Maladies 41
Dogs and Sherlock Holmes 48
The Botanical Doctor Watson 54
The Surgical Doctor Watson 62
Sherlock Holmes, the Chemist 69
Doctor Watson’s Universal Specific 77
Doctor Watson, Endocrinologist 83
Genetics and Sherlock Holmes 88
The Zoological Doctor Watson 96
Doctor Watson, Cardiologist 102
The Physiologic Doctor Watson 108
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Perennial Athletes 117
The Therapeutic Doctor Watson 127
Doctor Watson, General Practitioner 135
To undertake the writing of a large book is like entering on a long and
difficult journey, in the course of which much fatigue and uneasiness
must be undergone, while at the same time one is uncertain of reaching
the end of it: whereas writing a short essay is like taking a pleasant
airing that enlivens and invigorates by the exercise which it yields,
while the design is gratified in its completion.