‘Ah,’ said Bell, when the outpatient had left bewildered, ‘you all know about that as well as I did. ‘I am all that,’ said the man, ‘but how do you know? I never told you.’ Well do I remember the gasping astonishment of an outpatient to whom suddenly remarked, ‘Of course I know you are a beadle and ring the bells on Sundays at a Church in Northumberland somewhere near the Tweed.’
Liebow’s Joe Bell, Model of Sherlock Holmes (1982), would inspire Holmes’ claims that one can deduce “a man’s calling” from ( inter alia) the calluses on his hands: Ten years later, an episode of Bell’s life, recounted by one Doctor Charles Watson McGillivray and reported in E.
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Bell encouraged his students to draw inferences from observations of their patients and was keen on schooling them on how to do so. In 1877, doctor-in-training Arthur Conan Doyle served as an assistant to Scottish surgeon Joseph Bell (1837–1911) at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary. ( A Study in Scarlet, I, 2)ĭismissing Holmes’ claims as fiction may be tempting but would be a mistake for he describes real-world skills. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable. By a man’s finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boot, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuffs-by each of these things a man’s calling is plainly revealed. Rom a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
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