Holmes says to Mortimer: "I observe from your forefinger that you make your own cigarettes." Holmes presumably noticed tobacco stains, or, perhaps, Mortimer let a few cigarettes burn until they scorched his fingers.
He places Monsieur Bertillon above Holmes as having a more precisely scientific mind.
Dr. Mortimer
If you are talking about the stick belonging to Dr. Mortimer in The Hound of the Baskervilles, he made several brilliant deductions: 1. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer served in the Charing Cross Hospital, as on the stick the following is inscribed: 'friends of the C.C.H'. This is proved right when they check in Watson's medical directory. 2. He deduced Dr. Mortimer left Charing Cross Hospital from the date on the stick. 3. He deduced Dr. Mortimer was either a house-surgeon or a house-physician because a well-established staff physician would not likely leave the hospital. 4. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer's dog was larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff by closely examining the space between the teeth mark on the stick. 5. He surmised "there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded . . ."
From Sir Charles Baskerville
Holmes says to Mortimer: "I observe from your forefinger that you make your own cigarettes." Holmes presumably noticed tobacco stains, or, perhaps, Mortimer let a few cigarettes burn until they scorched his fingers.
He places Monsieur Bertillon above Holmes as having a more precisely scientific mind.
Dr. Mortimer
If you are talking about the stick belonging to Dr. Mortimer in The Hound of the Baskervilles, he made several brilliant deductions: 1. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer served in the Charing Cross Hospital, as on the stick the following is inscribed: 'friends of the C.C.H'. This is proved right when they check in Watson's medical directory. 2. He deduced Dr. Mortimer left Charing Cross Hospital from the date on the stick. 3. He deduced Dr. Mortimer was either a house-surgeon or a house-physician because a well-established staff physician would not likely leave the hospital. 4. He deduced that Dr. Mortimer's dog was larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff by closely examining the space between the teeth mark on the stick. 5. He surmised "there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded . . ."
Watson was talking to Sherlock Holmes -- though Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were also in the room -- in the story 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' and he was referring to a newspaper article in the London Times and the note that Sir Henry received.
From Sir Charles Baskerville
Sherlock Holmes
There have been as many Dr. Watsons and there have been Sherlock Holmes' in the movies. And there have been over 100 movies/series made that include Sherlock Holmes. Howard Marion-Crawford was one famous one.
Dr. Watson
Dr. Watson.
{| |- | Sherlock Holmes, being a fictional character, never met Dr. Bell. Dr. Bell employed Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, as a clerk at the Edinborough Infirmary. He was quite adept at deducing things from small observations. |}
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Moriarty were bitter enemies.