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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

Electric Belt from Sears

58 FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back, insomnia, melancholia, kidney disorder, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, disorders of the liver, female weakness, poor circulation, weak heart action and almost every known disease and weakness. The constant soothing alternating electric current is ever at worktouching the weak spots, building up the system, stimulating the circulation. ALL THAT ELECTRICITY WILL DO FOR YOU WILL BE RECEIVED through the use of our electric belt.

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Examples and Satire Surrounding Quackery Kyle Brett
Contents of this path:
1. Corn Plaster
2. Electric Belt from Sears FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back, insomnia, melancholia, kidney disorder, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, disorders of the liver, female weakness, poor circulation, weak heart action and almost every known disease and weakness. The constant soothing alternating electric current is ever at worktouching the weak spots, building up the system, stimulating the circulation. ALL THAT ELECTRICITY WILL DO FOR YOU WILL BE RECEIVED through the use of our electric belt.
3. Pill Man

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Cartoons/Illustrations Kyle Brett
Contents of this tag:
1. Clips from Fashion Adverts
2. Burke and Hare Cartoon
3. Dr. Knox Cartoon
4. Corn Plaster
5. Drawing of Little Nell
6. Pill Man
7. Electric Belt from Sears FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back, insomnia, melancholia, kidney disorder, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, disorders of the liver, female weakness, poor circulation, weak heart action and almost every known disease and weakness. The constant soothing alternating electric current is ever at worktouching the weak spots, building up the system, stimulating the circulation. ALL THAT ELECTRICITY WILL DO FOR YOU WILL BE RECEIVED through the use of our electric belt.
8. Mudlarks
9. First London Drinking Fountain
10. Ghost Chasing Man
11. William Hare Sketch
12. Victorian Children illness
13. Burke Sketch
14. Execution of William Burke
15. Victoria Cartoon
Newspapers and Magazines Kyle Brett
Contents of this tag:
1. Clips from Fashion Adverts
2. Noxious Effects of Improper Habitations
3. A Healthy Skin
4. The Queen and Prince Albert
5. Official Instructions for Cholera
6. The House of Mourning
7. Notabilia--Albert's Death
8. Price of a Grave
9. Supply of Anatomical Subjects
10. Use and Abuse of the Dead
11. Anatomical Dissections
12. The Sanctity of the Dead
13. Experiences of a Surgeon
14. Medical Facts and Opinions
15. The Electrical Cure for Cancer
16. Appropriating Dead Bodies
17. Half Mourning and Full Mourning
18. Sudden Mourning
19. On the Practice of Body Snatching
20. Public Health in London
21. Curious Letter
22. Cures by Yeast
23. Corn Plaster
24. Pill Man
25. Electric Belt from Sears FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back, insomnia, melancholia, kidney disorder, Bright's disease, dyspepsia, disorders of the liver, female weakness, poor circulation, weak heart action and almost every known disease and weakness. The constant soothing alternating electric current is ever at worktouching the weak spots, building up the system, stimulating the circulation. ALL THAT ELECTRICITY WILL DO FOR YOU WILL BE RECEIVED through the use of our electric belt.