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Dr. Smith had a suite of professional Chambers in the huge block of buildings known as Moon Buildings, upon Finsbury Pavement, and according to a notice, among some many scores of others, upon the wall of the vestibule, his speciality was 'Diseases of the Skin.'
If you had looked in the Medical Directory you would have seen that his Christian names were Raymond Colin, that he was a Doctor of Medicine of Edinburgh University, and that he had taken his degree in 1884. So you would naturally have assumed that he must be an old man, well over seventy, and therefore of considerable experience in his profession.