Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Joseph Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1837.

In 1859, shortly after graduating from medical school, Bell took a job at the Royal Infirmary in the Scottish capital.

In Sleuth Hound, you refer to him as, quote, a progressive physician inclined

toward reform.

Right on, Dr.

Bell.

So in 1863, Bell started teaching at the Royal Infirmary.

He offered so-called extramural lessons to medical students.

Through Dr. Fitzharris's captivating writing and storytelling, Bell and his world come to life.

Readers will feel like they're seated right next to Conan Doyle, watching Bell lecture on the importance of little distinctions at the Royal Infirmary.

They'll get an insider's perspective on how Conan Doyle's homage to Belle changed the man's life in complex ways.

And they'll be on the edge of their seats waiting to see how Belle's insight helped to carry out justice.

It is such a fun story to see this kind of take shape, to see the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes and like how Conan Doyle kind of picked apart these bits of personality traits.

But like Bell himself, let's get to know Bell a little bit more.

So he graduated from medical school and he began practicing medicine in the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh in 1859. which was a truly revolutionary time for science and medicine.

You know, germ theory was about to change what we understood about health and disease.

And they're like, "We're no fair this area, big man.

We're no fair this area." So I stick it back in my waistband, start walking along to Royal Infirmary.

Um, as I'm walking down to the A&E, I see a big boy from Carbis.

This one was about seven foot.

So I went out for a fag, and two seconds later, before I even got to light the fag, man, they, like the armored trucks came down.

And the armed response are based in Bird Street, which is like they're lucky if it's a two-minute drive.

Literally a two-minute drive, so about a five-minute walk from the Royal Infirmary.

So the two police have got their machine guns, and we've got my own.

And so going back to the early days of ovarian tissue cryopreservation, which is something we've continued with.

And along with that, my other role is I'm a consultant in reproductive medicine in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, seeing patients with fertility and other reproductive endocrine disorders.

Great.

Thank you.

I guess the difference would be his private patients.

So keep in mind, like at the Royal Infirmary in Attenborough, these were like the poorer patients that were coming in.

But with his private patients, he probably would have established more of a relationship.

There's a story I tell in the book.

A woman climbing onto this balcony and then jumping off.

She's now in a stable but sedated condition as police wait to speak to her here at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary.

Officers believing she's the only one with any answers.

The injured woman outside was identified as Teresa Riggie.

Post-mortem examinations have been carried out, but the results have not been released.

Yet it is understood that the children did not die as a result of the explosion or the resulting small fire in the flat.

California-born Mrs Riggie is reported to be in a serious but stable condition at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Teresa Riggi's 81-year-old mother Patricia Buttimore spoke to reporters from her home in California.