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"The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle\n\nThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with\nalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or\nre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included\nwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org\n\n\nTitle: A Study In Scarlet\n\nAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle\n\nPosting Date: July 12, 2008 [EBook #244]\nRelease Date: April, 1995\nLast Updated: September 30, 2016\n\nLanguage: English\n\nCharacter set encoding: UTF-8\n\n*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STUDY IN SCARLET ***\n\n\n\n\nProduced by Roger Squires\n\n\n\n\n\nA STUDY IN SCARLET.\n\nBy A. Conan Doyle\n\n[1]\n\n\n\n Original Transcribers Note: This etext is prepared directly\n from an 1887 edition, and care has been taken to duplicate the\n original exactly, including typographical and punctuation\n vagaries.\n\n Additions to the text include adding the underscore character to\n indicate italics, and textual end-notes in square braces.\n\n Project Gutenberg Editors Note: In reproofing and moving old PG\n files such as this to the present PG directory system it is the\n policy to reformat the text to conform to present PG Standards.\n In this case however, in consideration of the note above of the\n original transcriber describing his care to try to duplicate the\n original 1887 edition as to typography and punctuation vagaries,\n no changes have been made in this ascii text file. However, in\n the Latin-1 file and this html file, present standards are\n followed and the several French and Spanish words have been\n given their proper accents.\n\n\t Part II, The Country of the Saints, deals much with the Mormon Church.\n\n\n\n\nA STUDY IN SCARLET.\n\n\n\n\n\nPART I.\n\n(_Being a reprint from the reminiscences of_ JOHN H. WATSON, M.D., _late\nof the Army Medical Department._) [2]\n\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES.\n\n\nIN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the\nUniversity of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course\nprescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there,\nI was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant\nSurgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before\nI could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at\nBombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and\nwas already deep in the enemys country. I followed, however, with many\nother officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded\nin reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once\nentered upon my new duties.\n\nThe campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had\nnothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and\nattached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of\nMaiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which\nshattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have\nfallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the\ndevotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a\npack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.\n\nWorn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had\nundergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to\nthe base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied, and had already improved\nso far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little\nupon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse\nof our Indian possessions. For months my life was despaired of, and\nwhen at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and\nemaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost\nin sending me back to England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the\ntroopship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with\nmy health irretrievably ruined, but with permi
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