Doyle played soccer as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth FC while he was setting up his medical practice there.
Edinburgh Medical School.
Medical student After school, Arthur studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. While at university, he met a number of future British authors, including James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson, and he started writing short stories. His first short story was The Mystery of Sasassa Valley Valley. It appeared in Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal in September 1879. Later that year, he published The American Tale and he realised that perhaps he could earn money by writing.
‘It was in this year that I first learned that shillings might be earned in other ways than by filling phials.’ Old English money. Small containers that hold liquids, often used by doctors.
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