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Sherlock Holmes in San Francisco: The Triumph of William Gillette

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In the semi-darkness of San Franciso's opulent Castro Theatre, a capacity crowd of 1,400 listened as Russell Merritt, BSI ("The Trepoff Murder"), introduced the U.S. premiere of the restored version of William Gillette's <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> (1916), the long-believed-lost holy grail of Sherlockian filmdom. For hours before the 7 p.m. start time, the sidewalk in front of the Castro was crowded with unfortunate souls vying for tickets to the sold-out event, and the atmosphere on this delectable Sunday evening in May was positively electric. <br />
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Critics gushed when the film appeared a century ago. Said <i>The New York Morning Telegraph</i>: "From the beginning to the end of this seven-part feature there is not a dull moment." The <i>New York Dramatic Mirror</i> called it, "a screen triumph with a varied assortment of punches – and veritable triphammer punches, all of them." But vintage praises could hardly ease my mind. Would the film hold the attention of moviegoers who had seen <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075194/" target="_blank">The Seven-Per-Cent Solution</a></i> and Guy Ritchie's <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a></i>? Could a feature-length Sherlock Holmes silent film still connect with an audience in 2015? And, most of all, there was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette" target="_blank">William Gillette</a> – would he disappoint? Or was he, as Orson Welles declared, "the immortal Sherlock Holmes"?<br />
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The lights dimmed, the screen flickered, and we were off. On a scale of 1 to 10, the enthusiasm for William Gillette's <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> had been at Level Nine before the film began; two hours later, it had officially been turned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven" target="_blank">up to 11</a>.<br />
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Some background</h3>
Prior to Gillette's film, Holmes had made cinematic history more than once. The 1903 Edison short <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmffCrlgY-c" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Baffled</a></i> was the first detective film. Mack Sennett, founder of Keystone, was Holmes in <i>The $500 Reward</i> in 1911. In 1914 came two versions of <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>: one made in the U.S., with future six-time Oscar-winner <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ford" target="_blank">John Ford</a> as Dr. Watson; the other, the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/09/the-great-lost-sherlock-holmes-movie.html#.VXH8XmBq6_s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first Holmes film made in England</a>, with James Bragington as the great detective.<br />
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But none of these was as yearned-for as the one-and-only film of William Gillette, and for good reason: Gillette was perhaps the most fully invested of all the actors who have played Holmes. He adapted and co-produced the 1899 play <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>, in the process naming the page "Billy," a detail that later turned up in the Canon itself.<br />
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Gillette played Holmes over 1,300 times, even performing the role for Arthur Conan Doyle, and was the first Holmes on radio. He was the model for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Dorr_Steele" target="_blank">Frederick Dorr Steele's illustrations</a>, and he attended <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/02/the-1934-bsi-dinner.html" target="_blank">the 1934 BSI dinner</a> in December of that year, along with Christopher Morley and Vincent Starrett. It was he who gave Holmes the calabash-and-meerschaum pipe so widely identified with him that it is now "a Sherlock Holmes pipe." Gillette was "all in" as Sherlock Holmes, and it was tragic that the only visual record of his performance, the 1916 film made at Chicago's Essanay studios, was no more. But then the too-good-to-be-true happened.<br />
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A dupe negative was <a href="http://ihose.co/1916film" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discovered in the Cinematheque Francaise archive</a>. It was repaired and scanned at Italy's Cineteca di Bologna, and the resulting frames were sent to Robert Byrne, the president of the <a href="http://www.silentfilm.org/" target="_blank">San Francisco Silent Film Festival</a>, who painstakingly removed scratches, motes, and other damage, then oversaw the re-coloring of the film to its original orange-tinted interiors and blue-tinted nighttime exteriors. The Chicago History Museum loaned the restoration team a 1901 copy of Gillette's play, with the author's manuscript notes, as a reference for constructing new English intertitles.<br />
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The results are in: As a film, <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> is very, very good. In places, it is even great. It is old-school and up-to-date, weird and wonderful, puzzling and thrilling, wacky and delightful, hilarious, hypnotic, and thoroughly entertaining – in short, it's just about everything one could ask for in a Sherlock Holmes film. Those interested may find the <a href="http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/sherlock_holmes.html" target="_blank">details of the plot here</a>, as the film adheres closely to Gillette's stage production, and his skills as a dramatist leap from stage to screen admirably.<br />
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I am happy to report, moreover, that <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> is a film in the true sense. The first narrative film might have been Melies' <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon" target="_blank">A Trip to the Moon</a></i> but for one problem: Melies locks the camera in place (in a theatre) and performs a play in front of it. It was Edwin S. Porter's <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1903_film)" target="_blank">The Great Train Robbery</a></i> (1903) that first used extensive cross-cutting to depict simultaneous storylines, and first moved the camera to follow the action.<br />
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Gillette's film makes expert use of the latest innovations in camera technique: Double exposure shots and editing through dissolves, methods pioneered in <i>Story of a Crime</i> (1901), are taken to a new level, and the camera pans are almost imperceptible in their smoothness. Most impressive are a pair of tracking shots, especially one in which Holmes searches a room for clues; the technique was so new that it was still called a "<i>Cabiria</i> movement," after <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOWicOwtHa8" target="_blank">the 1914 Italian film</a> in which it first appeared. But the tracking shots in <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> are such an improvement over anything in <i>Cabiria</i> as to beleaguer comparison.<br />
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As to the restored print, Rob Byrne and the restoration team have done one of the finest jobs of saving a classic film that I have ever seen. The image quality of the restored <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> is astonishing, and today's viewers are being treated to a better-looking film than even the original audience experienced:<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/128699218" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes (1916) - Restoration Demo</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/silentrobert">SilentRobert</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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Saving the best for last, there are outstanding supporting performances in <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>, notably Edward Fielding as Watson, Burford Hampden as Billy, Stewart Robbins as Forman, William Postance as Sid, and Ernest Maupain as Moriarty, sporting a Guignol left eye as inexplicable as Dr. Watson's first initial of "G." Moreover, even the inferior performances manage to be delightful: They are bold, barefaced, and never boring, rather like a series of cameos by Nicolas Cage in his "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CanOZjrn0Jo" target="_blank">mega-acting</a>" period.<br />
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Concerning William Gillette, it is plain to see why his Holmes lit up the world's theatre marquees for 33 years. Calvin Coolidge called the performance, "a public service"; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle added, "you made the poor hero of the anemic printed page a very limp object as compared with the glamour of your own personality." The intricacy of Gillette's byplay stands in a class by itself, and his snarky interactions with the villains are sure to delight even the most jaded of today's audience members. (One exchange in the Stepney Gas Chamber would be criminal to spoil without warning.)<br />
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The best moment of the screening came after an interview with the baddies. Holmes returns to 221B Baker Street, where he is greeted by Dr. Watson; he doffs his coat, and stands waiting for Billy. The page brings forth — and slips our hero into — what may as well be a cross between the Mantle of the Prophet and the Golden Fleece: the famous Gillettean dressing-gown.  I have seen a good many movies in my time, and in my time there have been a great many movies that have been seen by me, but never yet had I seen a sold-out house go berserk over a dressing-gown, nor witnessed a costume receive a standing ovation, until that moment.<br />
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If convenient, see <i>Sherlock Holmes</i> – for the first time – on the big screen. If inconvenient, do so all the same. But should this prove impossible, be advised that the <a href="http://ihose.co/1916bluray" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DVD and Blu-ray release</a> from Flicker Alley will be available on October 20, 2015, and it might be wise to pre-order your copy. With any luck, the work of the <a href="http://silentfilm.org/festival/music-musicians/donald-sosin" target="_blank">Donald Sosin Ensemble</a>, who brilliantly accompanied the film in its San Francisco screening, will be included on this release, but, even if not, the purchase price will be well spent.<br />
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In 1916, the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> called <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>, "a production to which Essanay may point with pride … for future and again future revival." The future is here at last; for William Gillette, it's so bright, he has to wear shades.<br />
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Sherlock Holmes in San Francisco: The Triumph of William Gillette

"These relics have a history, then?" [MUSG] It was the day. The hour. Almost the very minute. In the semi-darkness of San F...

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Reaching a Milestone

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We tend to focus our efforts on Sherlock Holmes news, and while this update may seem a little navel-gazing, we'd still like to take the time to reflect.<br />
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With this post, we mark <b>our 1,000th entry</b> here on I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere.<br />
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It all started nearly 10 years ago with our <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2005/08/the-baker-street-blog_10.html#.VW-xj89Viko" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first entry introducing The Baker Street Blog</a> - as we were called at the time. Some of the early posts seem downright primitive in comparison, and some of them simply don't withstand the test of time, as other sites and technologies to which they refer are now defunct. But we still keep those posts up, because they act as something of a time capsule and a digital archaeological record of our efforts.<br />
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In mid-2007 we added an audio program (a podcast, if you must) called I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere that ambitiously attempted to commit to weekly or biweekly shows. We burned hot and bright for 18 episodes, then had our own hiatus for over a year. Now we're back on a regular (and sensible) monthly cadence that allows us to give serious thought to our guests and our topics.<br />
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Along the way, we picked up sponsors: <a href="http://wessexpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wessex Press</a> and <i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/" rel="" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal</a></i> continue to be our longest-running and most loyal sponsors, along with others who have joined us for s short while. And to them we are thankful.<br />
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Ours is a hobby, and as such, we can't cover the news full time - although we have had some lucky breaking news items like the <a href="http://ihose.co/1916film" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discovery of the 1916 William Gillette film</a> and the <a href="http://ihose.co/ACD_not" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discovery of a Sherlock Holmes-like story</a> that was purported to have been written by Conan Doyle. Like Horace Harker of the Central Press Syndicate in SIXN,<br />
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As work and family life kept us busy, we shared a goal with Peter Blau at the 2011 BSI Weekend: to turn our site into a group-effort, sharing writing, reporting and commentary responsibilities with as many contributors who would raise their hands. And we welcomed our first contribution from <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Gordon%20Dymowski#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gordon Dymowski</a>, who has proven to be one of our most profilic writers.<br />
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We created a form to allow anyone to throw his or her hat in the ring to contribute (see it at <a href="http://ihose.co/writeforihose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ihose.co/writeforihose</a>) and our stable of writers has grown. You can <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseteam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">meet the entire team</a> at <a href="http://ihose.co/ihoseteam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ihose.co/ihoseteam</a>. Among those who write for us are Chris Redmond, BSI ("Billy") proprietor of the ground zero for Sherlock Holmes on the web, <a href="http://sherlockian.net/" target="_blank">Sherlockian.net</a>; <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/terrace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francine Kitts</a>, BSI ("Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope"), the BSI's "Angel of Death; and the analytical and thoughtful James O'Leary, who always has a contribution of note.<br />
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But it was our syndication of <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Matt%20Laffey#.VW-4JM9Vikp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matt Laffey</a>'s Weekly Sherlockian Links Compendium that helped to make IHOSE a required destination. Syndicated from Matt's <a href="http://always1895.net/" target="_blank">Always 1895</a> site, we credited Matt with being the Peter Blau of the Internet (although <a href="http://redcircledc.org/" target="_blank">Peter does pretty well online</a> as well) and helping us to stay current with the news. With Matt's participation on his <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/newspaper.html" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers</a></i> project with Mattias Bostrom, BSI ("The Swedish Pathological Society"), we understand his priorities while we miss his updates.<br />
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From reviews of books, comics, television, film and even apps, and interviews, analyses and commentary, our team aims to cover as much ground as we can. And like the original Baker Street Irregulars, we "go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone." [SIGN]  Hopefully our writers aren't finding life as difficult as Neville St. Claire, who was a reporter for an evening paper in London and whose "<b><i>editor wished to have a series of articles.</i></b>" [TWIS]<br />
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Along the way, we've developed apps for our audio show, we've created the now-defunct Sherlock Holmes Social Network and then <a href="http://bit.ly/SHCommunity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">an online community</a> that now has over 2,600 members, <a href="http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub&publisher=445106&sitescope=45933" target="_blank">three options for subscribing by email</a>, a Sherlockian <a href="http://ihose.co/scoopsherlock" target="_blank">link-collecting site</a>, and even <a href="http://ihose.co/flipsherlock" target="_blank">an online magazine</a> that was <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/12/ihose-featured-on-flipboards-magswelove.html#.VW_BKc9Viko" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">featured by its technology founder</a>s.<br />
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We've had our fun over the course of 1,000 articles - from the time <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/04/is-long-row-veil_1.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">we fooled some Hollywood media</a> to <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2010/10/to-me-than-twitter-illu_25.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our live-tweeting of the first series of <i>Sherlock</i></a> on behalf of PBS (and the subsequent series as well), and ongoing series such as our coverage of <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/%23FreeSherlock#.VW-63c9Viko" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conan Doyle Estate's legal issues</a> and the important <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/search/label/Undershaw#.VW-8Os9Viko" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">efforts to preserve Undershaw</a>. We also tried to be helpful, as was the case with our perennially popular <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/12/how-to-get-most-out-of-bsiweekend.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guide to Getting the Most Out of the BSI Weekend</a> and the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2008/01/little-drama-sign_8.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">first use of Twitter during the BSI Weekend</a> (in 2008) and the <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2010/01/visitors-soli_14.html#.VW-_Hs9Viko" target="_blank">first use of the hashtag #BSIWeekend</a>, to help those not in New York follow the fun.<br />
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Reaching a Milestone

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Celebrating 40 Years of Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients

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In 1974, when Mary Ake and Nancy Wynn wanted to form a Denver area Sherlock Holmes group, they put a notice in the local newspapers to have an initial meeting at the <a href="http://www.littletongov.org/index.aspx?page=128" target="_blank">Bemis Libary</a> in Littleton, Colorado on a Wednesday evening.  "I expected 35 people to show up that night, no more," Mary Ake recalled when I spoke with her over the phone. "Instead, 250 people showed up in the meeting room which surprised me!"  <br />
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That evening, the crowd was treated to a talk by <a href="http://amzn.to/1KxCeRA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ron de Waal</a>, on his recent trip to England, and the meeting wrapped up with the attendees taking the group's oath.  "We had the oath," said Mary Ake, "and I was awed that everyone took it that night. We were a true scion society of the Baker street Irregulars (BSI)!"<br />
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Thus,  <a href="http://www.dwnp.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients</a> (DWNP) was formed. The group has allowed Denver area residents to connect and share their love of Sherlock Holmes.  Over the past 40 years the group has grown and continues to be active by hosting annual dinners, spring teas, and a monthly discussion/ trivia meeting.<br />
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<a href="http://amzn.to/1csZXGO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Darlene Cypser</a>, author and the current <a href="http://www.dwnp.com/medicalboard.html" target="_blank">Chief Surgeon</a> of the group explains:<br />
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"I think DWNP is much more active than it was when I started and that is not just because of all the TV shows and movies. Of course, websites and Facebook pages help spread the word and let us interact in different ways. Sherlockians have long corresponded worldwide through the mail. Now that is a lot faster."</blockquote>
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One of the staples of the group is the monthly get-togethers of the Outpatients, a separate subset of DWNP members that meets to drink, have lunch, and discuss a story from the original Sherlock Holmes canon.  "Our first idea was to meet on Wednesdays at my home, and have it be mostly for fellow retirees," said Lawrence Feldman, the Staff Surgeon (i.e. Vice President) of DWNP. "When we began telling people about it, it seemed there were many similarly interested who were still working, and people expressed frustration that they could not attend on a work day. So I got the idea of moving the meetings to Sundays and having it be for lunch at a place like <a href="http://www.pintspub.com/" target="_blank">Pints Pub</a>, which provided a British ambience, and had supported DWNP in the past."<br />
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The Outpatient meeting is the first Sunday of the month, and the group meets no matter if there are other events that day.  As Lawrence Feldman explains, "Meeting the first Sunday of every month sometimes puts us in conflict with holiday weekends, big football games, even Easter Sunday. Whenever I try to cancel the meeting for a month, the membership just flat out won't let me! So another tradition developed, to go on with the meeting on that first Sunday no matter what. And if some people can't attend every meeting due to these conflicts, that's ok too. This is when I first began to realize that these meetings were really important to people."<br />
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Other fun annual activities are the Sherlock Holmes Dinner which is every January and the annual spring tea hosted by the <a href="http://dwpconline.org/" target="_blank">Denver Woman's Press Club</a>.  "Members have organized our participation in cricket matches, plays, talks, tours of the CSI, and other get-togethers," said Darlene Cypser.  "One year I arranged for a local stunt team to demonstrate the art of Bartisu in a skit. They did a great job in the fight, even taking falls. It was quite thrilling. But one member had gone to the restroom, and she asked them if they would do it again. They obliged despite the fact that they were taking the falls on the hard floor without pads. I am sure they had quite a few bruises the next day!"<br />
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Upcoming events include a group viewing of the film, <i><a href="http://www.mrholmesfilm.com/" target="_blank">Mr. Holmes</a>, </i>dinner with <a href="http://www.redcircledc.org/" target="_blank">Peter Blau</a>'s group<i> The Practical but Limited Geologists, </i>and<i> </i>author talks and presentations as part of <i><a href="http://www.dmns.org/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/the-international-exhibition-of-sherlock-holmes/" target="_blank">The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes, </a></i>which will be at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science beginning in October.<br />
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The attendance at the Outpatient Meetings is exploding, and DWNP will continue on as a group for Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans to connect in the Denver  metro area.  There's only one change that Chief Surgeon Darlene Cypser would like to make.  "We would like to add more young people to DWNP, including kids."<br />
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For more information on Dr. Watson's Neglected Patients, please see their <a href="http://www.dwnp.com/" target="_blank">web site</a>, or their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DrWatsonsNP" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. <br />
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