In the book "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Sherlock Holmes believed that "doctor's make the greatest criminals."I think Holmes came to the conclusion that " doctors make the greatest criminals" because doctors are able to legally prescribe drugs and medications that if one takes to much of it can kill. Doctors will not be held a countable for this because it's a label of directions that the states the amount to be taken a day.When doctors prescribe the drug there is no suspicion that it's not a drug. If it was a surgical doctor with a knife this doctor would know all the possible areas to kill someone quickly.
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Around that time if you were doctor you would of made the perfect criminal. Most criminals around Sherlock Holme's time period were not very smart and would leave clues but when Sherlock Holmes was investigating the scene of a crime committed by a Doctor there would be few. Doctors around Sherlock Holmes' time period did not sterilize their hands or instruments, a method of disinfection used today, yet people had the faith and trust in them.
Doctors were accepted as smart people and around that time period would almost certainly never be questdoctors. Doctors are also high ranking on the social latter, during Sherlock Holme's time and even until today. Patience usually trusted doctors enough to do dangerous forms of therapy, either physical or involving medication, that would put the patience life at risk.During the 18th century medical sciences were not as advanced in scientific knowledge because the body and its functions were still a mystery.
Sherlock Holme's conclusion that doctors were the greatest criminals was reasonable. Medicine and sciences during times of Holmes were not as advanced as todays, making it easy for a doctor with enough knowledge to become an almost untraceable criminal. Doctors work with chemicals only accessible by doctors, and can create poisons to inflect on their
Today doctors would have a harder time trying to kill someone due to the fact that forensics will be to detect …show more content…
Around that time if you were doctor you would of made the perfect criminal. Most criminals around Sherlock Holme's time period were not very smart and would leave clues but when Sherlock Holmes was investigating the scene of a crime committed by a Doctor there would be few. Doctors around Sherlock Holmes' time period did not sterilize their hands or instruments, a method of disinfection used today, yet people had the faith and trust in them.
Doctors were accepted as smart people and around that time period would almost certainly never be questdoctors. Doctors are also high ranking on the social latter, during Sherlock Holme's time and even until today. Patience usually trusted doctors enough to do dangerous forms of therapy, either physical or involving medication, that would put the patience life at risk.During the 18th century medical sciences were not as advanced in scientific knowledge because the body and its functions were still a mystery.
Sherlock Holme's conclusion that doctors were the greatest criminals was reasonable. Medicine and sciences during times of Holmes were not as advanced as todays, making it easy for a doctor with enough knowledge to become an almost untraceable criminal. Doctors work with chemicals only accessible by doctors, and can create poisons to inflect on their