From Thomas Woolnoth’s The Study of the Human Face (1865.)
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From Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel’s Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum (1727).
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Digital Highlights: The Fascination of Crime
Table of contents from "Narratives."
Narratives of Remarkable Crimes, selected from the German works of Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and published in 1846 in London, consists of 14 of the trials in Feuerbach’s original 1300 page work chosen and translated by Lady Duff Gordon. She provides a brief overview of the German justice system in her preface, commenting on the role of witnesses, judge, and the system of appeals. She spends only a brief paragraph explaining her reasons for choosing the trials here published, mentioning only the influence of an article from the influential and popular Edinburgh Review and her desire to “[choose] those trials which appear to me to have the greatest general interest…” (10) Continue reading
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From Walter J. Kilner’s The Human Atmosphere, or, The Aura Made Visible by the Aid of Chemical Screens (1911).
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From Mrs. H.R. Haweis’ The Art of Beauty (1883).
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From Hereward Carrington’s Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena (1909).
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From R. Lawton Roberts’ Illustrated Lectures on Ambulance Work (1888).
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From George McClellan’s Anatomy in Its Relation to Art (1901).
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From Martin W. Ware’s Plaster of Paris and How to Use It (1906).
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Digital Highlights: Water and Politics
One of the most popular alternative cures in the nineteenth century involved water — lots of water. Balneology, balneotherapy, or “the cold water cure” was popular on mainland Europe, in England, and in the United States. Spas flourished in England, for example, and scientist Charles Darwin credited the cold water cure with the recreation of his system after serious digestive problems left him almost prostrate and unable to work.
Frontispiece portrait of Priessnitz.
In Six Months at Graefenberg, H.C. Wright tells about his own cure at a German cold water spa run by a balneologist called Priessnitz (there’s an interesting article on Priessnitz and water therapy in the first volume of British Journal of Balneology and Climatology from 1897.) Continue reading