Dec 1: From Poseidon - God of the Seas - Holmes gets up to some self-experimentation.
"Seriously Holmes, you should know better, even a child knows better." Watson said as he pulled out the jar of an ointment which had been recommended by a local doctor that he'd purchased from a local druggist's on his way back to the hotel where he and his companion were staying.
So far, this trip to America had been one long string of disasters, and not the fun sort either. The one thing that each of those disasters had in common was that they had all come about because Holmes had gone and done something the locals had all agreed was exceedingly unwise.
"Even a toddler would know to heed a rhyme like 'leaves of three, let it be', and surely wouldn't approach a plant called 'Poison Ivy', much less rub it on themselves in order to see what happens!" Watson continued, lecturing his friend as he rubbed the ointment over the rash that his now rather miserable friend had contracted following said experiment.
In terms of sheer inconvenience to him, this was one of the worst things that had happened to Watson on this particular journey. Still, it could've been worse. Holmes could've rubbed the Poison Ivy on him in order to see what happened for instance...