{"product_id":"2940012041319","title":"A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle","description":"A Study In Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA STUDY IN SCARLET.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy A. Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[1]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003eA STUDY IN SCARLET.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(_Being a reprint from the reminiscences of_ JOHN H. WATSON, M.D., _late\u003cbr\u003eof the Army Medical Department._) [2]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course\u003cbr\u003eprescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there,\u003cbr\u003eI was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant\u003cbr\u003eSurgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before\u003cbr\u003eI could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at\u003cbr\u003eBombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and\u003cbr\u003ewas already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, however, with many\u003cbr\u003eother officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded\u003cbr\u003ein reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once\u003cbr\u003eentered upon my new duties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had\u003cbr\u003enothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and\u003cbr\u003eattached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of\u003cbr\u003eMaiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which\u003cbr\u003eshattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have\u003cbr\u003efallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the\u003cbr\u003edevotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a\u003cbr\u003epack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had\u003cbr\u003eundergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to\u003cbr\u003ethe base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied, and had already improved\u003cbr\u003eso far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little\u003cbr\u003eupon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse\u003cbr\u003eof our Indian possessions. For months my life was despaired of, and\u003cbr\u003ewhen at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and\u003cbr\u003eemaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost\u003cbr\u003ein sending me back to England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the\u003cbr\u003etroopship \"Orontes,\" and landed a month later on Portsmouth jetty, with\u003cbr\u003emy health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a paternal\u003cbr\u003egovernment to spend the next nine months in attempting to improve it.","brand":"public domain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120923001072,"sku":"2940012041319","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012041319","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}