Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the DeadMain MenuFleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public HealthFirst SectionDying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and MourningSecond SectionWearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of DeathThird SectionUp and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-SnatchingFourth SectionWeird Science: Anatomical Use of the DeadFifth SectionWorks Cited/Full-Texts/Further ReadingsKyle Brett425ed005fc457ac8e436783036f285b42b192fb4
Published in 1848 as a short reprint from a larger health-based piece, this reprinting in the Chamber's Edinburgh Journal argues for the importance of a healthy skin in relation to prevention of common diseases. In relationship to the more state-sanctioned public health documents, the influence that quack-cures held over the population underscores the need to be seen as healthy by the state in the face of national health and social crises. Underlined here is the importance of the outward display (something we will see more of in the mourning sections) to Victorians. The skin, the organ presented to the onlooker, must be healthy for the individual body to be seen as well.