Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

Cures by Yeast

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Signed only by W.E.N, in 1844, this letter to the editors of The Mirror highlights the restorative powers of yeast and its ability to treat common ailments--offers personal experience and methodology as proof. Quackery, though now something that may make the modern reader laugh, can show us how pervasive the need for public health was to Victorian readers and citizens.

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