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From wounded fairies to sweet Fanny Adams : doctors helping the police with their enquiries over the centuries / Peter Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical jurisprudence--History.
- Medical jurisprudence.
- Criminal investigation--History.
- Criminal investigation.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Softcover first edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Mango Books, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Sex, Drugs and a Hole in the Head
- 2. Murder, Witches and Going to Pot
- 3. Why Tudors and Stuarts Didn't Bother with Police and Doctors But Just Boiled Criminals
- 4. Doctors Learn to Sit on the Fence and a Madman Tried to Kill a Mad King
- 5. The First Police Force (Or Not) and Sweet Fanny Adams
- 6. Victorians Become Obsessed with Poisons
- 7. Behind the Victorian Stiff Upper Lip was a Stiff Drink, Drugs and Mental Illness
- 8. How Very Victorian
- 9. Police Surgeons, the Clever French and Less Clever Drug Laws.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1911273973
- 9781911273974
- 9781914277054
- 1914277058
- OCLC:
- 1198977460
- Publisher Number:
- 99991279631
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