#scientist!sherlock

[celestetcetera]

Shoutout to the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for having an absolute banger of a title. Truly got everything you need. It’s unique. It’s intriguing. Love the format. However, extreme un-shoutout to literally every adaptation that’s been made since for invariably being titled some form of “Jekyll & Hyde.” Like I get it, it’s easy shorthand to know what story you’re telling, but by the gods of if I have to distinguish between any more of these I’m going to explode

[consult-sherlockholmes]

Happy Pride in London 🏳️‍🌈

[thereal-evanrosier]

AU where Barty is Sherlock Holmes and Evan is John Watson.

It fits perfectly. Barty is a crazy genius with drug addictions, Evan would enjoy the hell out of being an army doctor and the tension between them is just perfection.

[lifenconcepts]

[type-40-nightingales]

Sherlock is one of the obly thing my family can agree on watching but my scientist dad scoffs and proceds to rant about the inaccuracy of it whenever sherlock uses a microscope

[sometipsygnostalgic]

If Entrapta's character is like a feral shonen protagonist (Goku or Luffy) became a scientist instead of a fighter, then what is her opposite?

What character in fiction is like if a calculated mad scientist type (think Princess Bubblegum or Bulma) became a fighter instead?

[girlcockholmes]

its been 24 years without a first kiss and at this point i figure i should just go a couple more years on purpose now so i can really cement me being #justlikesherlockholmesbutagirl. why not

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

I think Sherlock Holmes should qualify as an honorary mad scientist. I'm a fake mad scientist fan who's never even read The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde and only mostly finished the original Frankenstein but I've read a hell of a lot of synopses, adaptations, ect. and watched 20≥ Frankenstein movies, so here's my argument:

•Marvelously intelligent and wildly competent in his chosen field, matched by almost nobody in skill

•Constantly up in all kinds of business that he probably should not be up in

•He has a chemistry set in his home and I think that counts for something

•Cocaine

•Is somehow a massive boon and wild inconvenience to everyone within a 300 mile radius of himself

•He has exactly one friend

•He is a quirky Londoner in Victorian England (by quirky I mean a threat to human life and also he talks to dogs like they're people)

[malkaleh]

Obviously I am a Sherlock/John/Mary shipper for life and I kind of adore the idea of them having children if only because I really think all of them would be like ‘Victorian Middle/Upper Class Ideas Of Childrearing Whomst?’ like their daughters are thoroughly educated.

[bloodurged]

so, we all agree that rick's coat is weighted? but he found a way to still have it be thin? right? 'cause we should.

[jbowser17]

If you are looking for a queer gothic Victorian inspired story for the fall season, check out my WIP. Currently there are three chapters posted and much more to come.

Let me know what you think!

[consult-sherlockholmes]

Do not tempt me. Maybe this would be a nice evening activity to stave off the boredom.

[maleaser]

What books do you think the Jekyll and Hyde characters would like? They can be fiction or non-fiction, modern or ones they would have read in their time.

[fourfuckinghorsemen]

That really is hilarious. Sherlock goes around insisting he's above other humans and doesn't feel emotion blah blah blah. And then he goes and pulls the most human shit of all. Completely denying and refusing to accept all the things he cannot understand. 🤭

[scotianostra]

Henry Duncan Littlejohn was born in Edinburgh on May 8th 1826, Littlejohn is one of two Edinburgh men that are quoted as being an influence in Arthur Conan Doyle’s formation of the character Sherlock Homes.

Henry was educated in Perth before The Royal High school and the Edinburgh University studying medicine and  graduating with distinction in 1847.

It’s quite a topical post given that Henry Littlejohn, whose appointment as the first Medical Officer of Health for Edinburgh was the first appointment of its kind in Scotland. He pioneered compulsory notification of infectious disease in Edinburgh leading to the introduction of such notification throughoutt Britain. The resultant mapping of diseases allowed active prevention and led to significant reduction in mortality during the 50 years of his office. He also achieved distinction in Forensic Medicine as an expert Crown witness for most of the major Scottish trials in the latter half of the 19th century.

Eloquent and erudite, he was regarded as an outstanding teacher amidst Edinburgh contemporaries who included some of the greatest medical teachers in the world.

In 1879 due to his influence a clause was included in the local Police Act requiring such notification giving Edinburgh the lead to the whole of Great Britain. This was to prove one of the major advances in public health of the 19th century. His “Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City of Edinburgh” proved a blueprint for social reform. It clearly demonstrated the effect of population density on the spread of disease and mortality. He was able to define the incidence of dip patients throughout the city and demonstrated a clear correlation between deprivation, disease and mortality. His proposals to improve this included recommendations about building, sewage, water pollution and limiting overcrowding. The Town Council were responsive to his recommendations and demolished many aging properties which had become dangers to health.

By the time of his retiral in 1908, after 46 years of service, mortality rates in Edinburgh from infectious disease had halved. Largely as a result of his efforts cholera and typhus had disappeared and smallpox had become a rarity. The other inspiration I mentioned earlier, for Sherlock Holmes gets a mention here in this article about both him and Liltlejohn   

[contentabnormal]

This week on Content Abnormal we present Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce in The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes investigation of "The Disappearing Scientists"!

The Sherlock Holmes adventure mentioned toward the end of the broadcast can be listened to HERE as part of a previous Content Abnormal show.

You can find Goliath And The Dragon & The Ghost Walks HERE.