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[edit] Gasogene an 'unexplained' feature?

From the first pages of "A Scandel in Bohemia" we find this item. Dr. Watson is the narrator; he refers to Holmes, of course:

"His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire, and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion."

If a spirit case is a liquor cabinet, then the presence of a gasogene is not so hard to rationalize. One could use it to prepare a scotch and soda, for example.