[ SECRET POST #3318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3318 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it wasn't a drug addiction, exactly. ACD made it clear that cocaine wasn't something Holmes did often, nor did the habit control him. He took it to relieve boredom when he didn't have a case, and Watson treated it with obvious disapproval because he felt it was a bad habit. The point was, Watson didn't necessarily think or behave as backwardly as some Victorians did, so there's no need to exaggerate his medical knowledge in order to write an accurate story.

You seemed to be implying that sacrificing realism was necessary in order to have Watson behave the "right" way, i.e. in keeping with what we know about modern medicine. I'm simply telling you that, no, it's not necessary. You can have both a competent Watson AND realism.

[solticisekf]

Well, it's not that I disagree with you completely, but I do disagree on some points. How is it possible for Watson to be better and less backwards than the official medicine at the time? He wasn't a medical genius with his own methods, he was just a good doctor for his time. For example the customary method of treating tuberculosis was bloodletting and starvation as well as traveling to a warmer climate, even in 1891!

Ehh, I don't buy a recreational drug use. Either it's a drug habbit or not. However ACD didn't explicitly say that Holmes was an addict, true.