There were several Mortimers, but only one who could be our visitor.

I read his record aloud.
"Mortimer, James, M.R.C.S., 1882, Grimpen, Dartmoor, Devon.
House-surgeon, from 1882 to 1884, at Charing Cross Hospital.
Winner of the Jackson prize for Comparative Pathology, with essay entitled 'Is Disease a Reversion ?' Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society.

Author of 'Some Freaks of Atavism' (Lancet 1882).

'Do We Progress ?' (Journal of Psychology, March, 1883).

Medical Officer for the parishes of Grimpen, Thorsley, and High Barrow." "No mention of that local hunt, Watson," said Holmes with a mischievous smile, "but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed.