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However, some years later Bell wrote in a letter to Conan Doyle: " you are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it.

" Sir Henry Littlejohn, lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons, is also cited as a source for Holmes.

Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical investigation and the detection of crime.