More Like Cooking Than Science: Narrating the Inside of the British Medical Laboratory, 1880-1914

摘要

In Arthur Conan Doyle.s second Sherlock Holmes novella, The Sign of Four (1890), we encounter a laboratory space within Bartholomew Sholto.s bedchamber. Holmes and Watson have travelled to Pondicherry Lodge to reclaim the Agra treasure that lies at the heart of the story. On seeking Bartholomew Sholto, who appears to have locked himself in his bedchamber, Holmes and Watson break down the door to find a laboratory in which