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

Post-Mortem Examinations

58 Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section



Published in 1900 by John Caven, this is a rather large textbook describing the care and procedure a physician should use when preparing and examining the recently deceased. Particularly close attention is paid to the presentation of the body to hide as many surgical interventions as possible as the surgeon is concentrated on respecting the corpse. Like Simonet's painting, the dead is to be respected for their sacrifice, their addition to the the collective knowledge of the state. 

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