| Dr. John H. Watson | Family | Personal Effects | Art | Travel | Writings |
 

The following items are an inventory of Dr. Watson's personal effects:

General:

- Bull pup (STUD)
- Pencil (STUD)
- Valise (BOSC)
- "Very excellent field-glass[es]" (
SILV)
- Muffler (RESI)
- Calling cards (NAVA)
- Matches (FINA)
- A carpetbag (FINA)

Books & Magazines:  

- Henri Murger's "Vie de Bohème" (STUD)
- A Charles Darwin publication (likely Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) (STUD)

- Shakespeare's Hamlet
- British Medical Journal (STOC)

Firearms & Ammunition:

-Service Revolver from his military days (STUD, SIGN ). Scholars have argued that this might be an Adams No. 3 (D.M. Torese) or Adams .450 (Baring-Gould)

-"Eley's No. 2" (actually a type of ammunition) - which actually handgun this refers to is unclear. (SPEC)  

Webley's No. 2, a candidate for the "Eley's No. 2" ammunition that Watson owns)

Consulting Room & Medical Items:

- Stethoscope (secreted in right side of top hat) (SCAN, SIGN)
- Iodoform (compound of iodine used as antiseptic) (SCAN)
- Nitrate of Silver (antiseptic & disinfectant) (SCAN)
- Books (ENGI)
- Table (ENGI)
- Side table (ENGI)
- Carafe of water (ENGI)
- Brandy (ENGI)
- Cotton wadding (ENGI)
- Carbolized bandages (bandages with carbolic acid or phenol for use as antiseptic) (ENGI)

At His House with Mary:

- Table and lamp upon it (where he reads) (FINA)
- The house has shutters
(FINA)
- Garden wall (outside) (FINA)

 

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