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The scene takes place in The Sign of Four, written in 1889 published in 1890. In the opening, a scene which shows the famous detective in his office.
Dr. Watson, his acolyte, recounts that Holmes had a neat morocco case nearby, and his arm was, and I quote, "marked with innumerable puncture marks." The cocaine injection brand and, as Sherlock puts it, a "7% solution".
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With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
and Benjamin Brillaud from @Nota Bene and @Nota Bonus
Script, editing and production: Laurent Turcot
00:00 Introduction
01:47 The cocaine craze
06:51 Holmes and cocaine
11:03 The dangers of cocaine
16:27 Closing
Music from the website: epidemicsound.com
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For further:
Douglas Small, “Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine: A 7% Solution for Modern
Professionalism”, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Volume 58, Number 3, 2015, pp. 341-360.
Douglas Small, “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,” History Today, vol. 72, Issue 2, February 2022, p. 14-16.
Douglas Small, “Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug”, Wellcome Collection, 23 May 2019.
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Mike Jay, "The Reasons for Sherlock Holmes' Passion for Cocaine", Ulyces, November 4, 2014.
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Benjamin D. O'Dell, "Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four,'" The Journal of Popular Culture, 45.5 (2012), 1980
Éric Fouassier, “Sherlock Holmes, Watson and cocaine. A literary contribution
the history of drug addiction”, Review of the history of pharmacy, 82nd year, no 300, 1994, p. 65-70.
Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, New York, Tauris Parke, 2003.
Nicki Buscemi, “The Case of the Case History: Detecting the Medical Report in Sherlock Holmes,” Journal of Victorian Culture, 19.2 (2014), 216-31
Virginia Berridge, Opium and the People: Opiate Use and Policy in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain, London, Free Association Books, 1999.
Dominick A. Labianca and William J. Reeves, “Sherlock holmes and his compulsive use of cocaine: A topic for coordinated study”, Science Education, 60/1, January/March 1976, p. 47-52.
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