Why Mutilate The Nose Specifically?

[Wickerman]

It's been suggested that the facial mutilation inflicted on Eddowes may have been done as a warning to someone. I guess though, if it wasn't completely random, another possibility is that Eddowes herself was being punished in some way.

I've found the following which outlines reasons why, historically, nasal amputation was inflicted as punishment:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689568/

I thought the following particularly interesting:

Also this:

How come you missed this Colin?

"....inflicted the same punishment on those guilty of adultery and also those guilty of having favoured prostitution,"

Now there's a thought I don't remember being voiced before.

Good find Bridewell.

Regards, Jon S.

[Bridewell]

It's been suggested that the facial mutilation inflicted on Eddowes may have been done as a warning to someone. I guess though, if it wasn't completely random, another possibility is that Eddowes herself was being punished in some way.

I've found the following which outlines reasons why, historically, nasal amputation was inflicted as punishment:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689568/

I thought the following particularly interesting:

In ancient times, the laws in various countries established amputation of the nose, as corporal punishment, for misdeeds such as adultery,

Also this:

Rhinotomy may well have been due to revenge on the part of the husband who had been betrayed and this type of retaliation was tolerated already by Roman law.