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‘A virtue beyond all medicine’: The Hanged Man's Hand, Gallows Tradition and Healing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England
From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing properties of corpse hands in general were acknowledged and experimented...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4623855/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26516298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkv044 |