My Sherlock Holmes Chronology list

[Carol the Dabbler]

21 hours ago, Karnak said:

Couldn't "when you doctored" mean "when you received the title as a doctor"? In spanish this is the case, apparently.

I doubt that's what Holmes meant.  I've never heard it used that way, but of course I speak American (rather than British) English, so I checked the Collins Dictionary (my favorite online dictionary that covers both American and British usage), and its only British definition as a non-transitive verb is "to practise medicine."

21 hours ago, Karnak said:

some people still refers to [the opera house] as Covent Garden nowadays, due to the market where is located.

Well, there's my new bit of knowledge for the day!  I've always thought that "Covent Garden" refers specifically to the market -- and Wikipedia confirms that it used to be a wholesale vegetable market (i.e., selling things that grown in gardens), as seen in My Fair Lady (after having been the garden, orchard, etc. of a monastery or convent).