Robert Ing, has closely read Conan Doyle’s stories to craft a more specific list of skills that Holmes demonstrates a working knowledge of: chemistry, bloodstain identification, botany, geology, anatomy, law, cryptanalysis, fingerprinting, document examination, ballistics, psychological profiling and forensic medicine. Forensic scientist and Holmes scholar Dr. But you don’t have to take Watson’s word for it. According to Watson, Holmes’s knowledge of botany is “variable”, his skill in geography is “practical but limited”, his knowledge of chemistry “profound”, and regarding human anatomy, his knowledge is “accurate.” The applied knowledge of these various sciences made “the science of deduction” possible. John Watson, A Study in Scarlet, Watson himself enumerates the skills, talents, and interests in which Holmes exhibited a useful capacity. Holmes was well-versed in forensic science before there was a forensic science to be well versed in. Though they often seem nearly mystical in origin, Holmes’s deductions were in fact the product of a keenly trained mind. Sherlock Holmes’s extraordinary talent for deduction has been well documented by Arthur Conan Doyle. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson (image: )
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