The kidney removal of Catherine Eddowes.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Well I have a statement from a master butcher who started his career in a slaughterhouse who would contest you post. In that statement he highlights the danger of working in the dark in a blood filled abdomen with a long bladed sharp knife he also highlights the problems he would encounter in trying to locate the organs in a human body and then trying to grip them to be able to remove them

I am sure that you are aware that modern-day surgeons wear surgical gloves so that they can grip organs more easily these were not around in victorian times.

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So we have Paul, with actual medical knowledge that none of us possesses, and you favour a butcher over him.

So the next time you make a point on detection should I go and ask the World Cluedo champion’s opinion?

[Trevor Marriott]

So we have Paul, with actual medical knowledge that none of us possesses, and you favour a butcher over him.

So the next time you make a point on detection should I go and ask the World Cluedo champion’s opinion?

When does a butcher learn about female anatomy and how to remove a uterus and a kidney from a murdered female in almost total darkness?

Wake up to reality !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Patrick Differ]

Kosher butchers in Whitechapel who went to the Jewish Free School were educated in Religion and Science. The Kosher butcher also spent years to become licensed in becoming Kosher. The training in anatomy of related animals would have required how much transfer of knowledge exactly? How long was the killer with Chapman? How would you compare a Kosher Butcher ( someone who arguably had highly specialized skill with specialized blades ) to a surgeon who used smaller narrower blades as described by Dr Phillips ?
Just as there are different Surgeons with different skills, there were also different types of butchers with different skills.

[GBinOz]

Kosher butchers in Whitechapel who went to the Jewish Free School were educated in Religion and Science. The Kosher butcher also spent years to become licensed in becoming Kosher. The training in anatomy of related animals would have required how much transfer of knowledge exactly? How long was the killer with Chapman? How would you compare a Kosher Butcher ( someone who arguably had highly specialized skill with specialized blades ) to a surgeon who used smaller narrower blades as described by Dr Phillips ?
Just as there are different Surgeons with different skills, there were also different types of butchers with different skills.

Hi Patrick,

Most butchers empty the abdomen whilst the animal is hanging vertically so that gravity helps a great deal. Jewish Shochets often do it with the animal lying supine, but Jack however used a long blade pointed knife, possibly double edged (a Liston amputaion knife). Jewish butchers use a chalaf, which is single edged with a square end.


Chalaf




Liston knives

Cheers, George

[GBinOz]

Hi George

You are assuming that the killer cared about not damaging other organs (and obviously haemostasis is not a concern). The most similar modern procedure would be a resuscitative hysterotomy aka perimortem c-section. These should be started at four minutes post arrest and baby delivered by five minutes, ie one minute to cut through abdomen and open uterus. I can imagine an experienced slaughterman easily being able to open the abdomen and find the uterus in about one to two minutes and then the kidney could be a lucky find by him.

Paul

Hi Paul,

I'm not suggesting that Jack cared about damaging other organs, just that he seemed to be following methods and procedures adopted by medical students in the dissecting room. The mobilisation of the small intestine, dividing the root of the mesentery, removed the descending colon to get at Eddowes's left kidney, invaginating the sigmoid into the rectum and the skirting of the umbilicus to the right with the abdominal incision. Would these be procedures adopted by a slaughterman?

My understanding is that in 1888 abdominal surgery on live patients was very rare, and more in the domain of the dissecting room.

Cheers, George

[The Rookie Detective]

Hi Paul,

I'm not suggesting that Jack cared about damaging other organs, just that he seemed to be following methods and procedures adopted by medical students in the dissecting room. The mobilisation of the small intestine, dividing the root of the mesentery, removed the descending colon to get at Eddowes's left kidney, invaginating the sigmoid into the rectum and the skirting of the umbilicus to the right with the abdominal incision. Would these be procedures adopted by a slaughterman?

My understanding is that in 1888 abdominal surgery on live patients was very rare, and more in the domain of the dissecting room.

Cheers, George

This is the crux of the argument.

What kind of man had the ability and capability to carry out those wounds inflicted on each of the known victims, within a relatively small time frame, in near darkness, in virtual silence, and then escape the scene without being heard or seen?

When we combine all of those proven factors, it really is quite remarkable how it was achieved multiple times.

The answer may rest in areas of the case that we believe are true; that may indeed be false.

For example...multiple assailants, a different kill site to the deposition site, use of a cart to move and then place the body, someone who would not be stopped and questioned; a policeman, a vicar, a child, a woman etc...


There must be something that we are all missing that would go some way to explain how the Ripper managed to achieve what he did.

[GBinOz]

The answer may rest in areas of the case that we believe are true; that may indeed be false.

Well said RD. The voice of reason crying in the wilderness.

Cheers, George

[DJA]

[Herlock Sholmes]

When does a butcher learn about female anatomy and how to remove a uterus and a kidney from a murdered female in almost total darkness?

Wake up to reality !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Then perhaps you could remind us who it was that posted this?

Well I have a statement from a master butcher who started his career in a slaughterhouse who would contest you post. In that statement he highlights the danger of working in the dark in a blood filled abdomen with a long bladed sharp knife he also highlights the problems he would encounter in trying to locate the organs in a human body and then trying to grip them to be able to remove them

So…….”When does a butcher learn about female anatomy and how to remove a uterus and a kidney from a murdered female in almost total darkness?”

[Herlock Sholmes]

There must be something that we are all missing that would go some way to explain how the Ripper managed to achieve what he did.

I think that we are in danger of assuming almost superhuman powers when we should look to a more commonplace explanation. That whatever skill was required, the killer had it and whatever time was required, the killer had it.

So for me it’s fairly simple - did the killer have the necessary knowledge, skill and time to kill and remove those organs. Absolutely, because that’s what happened. The alternatives don’t pass muster. Would an organ thief have stolen body parts from an already open abdomen which had already been scrutinised by at least 2 but possibly more Doctors in the mortuary, between the approximate hours of 5am to 2pm from a purpose built mortuary, from the most high profile corpse ever, during daylight/working hours, when all that they had to do would have been what they would have done in every single theft - waited until after the PM. The answer has to be a resounding, confident no. Not a chance.

Doctors at the time were fully aware of the phenomena of organ theft and yet not one of them at any time expressed even the slightest doubt that the killer had taken these organs. I agree with Jeff in that it’s almost certain that Dr. Phillips would have noted the absence of the uterus when he examined the corpse in the mortuary because that was the reason that Bond requested his presence. To make a comparison with what was done to Chapman and what was the most unusual thing that occurred to Chapman? Her uterus was removed.