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"Very little blood around the neck“ can mean that she had shed all the blood to the ground (as the IWMC people said), and what remained on her neck was the coagulated bit, which would stick anyway. Clearly, the Johnston chap's testimony does not show medical expertise."
Johnston never mentions the coagulation state of the blood on her neck, but obviously if the thicker stream in the rut was clotted, then the thin layer on her neck would have been even more so.
Incidentally, I fail to see in what regard Johnstons testimony points him out as medical expertise. He is quite concise about what he saw and did, and he is not offering his knowledge to a board of colleauges but to an inquest into Stride´s death.
"this is Victorian medicine"
Which means nothing. Same procedures then. If you read my dissertation you will find that the expertise on the area can pin this.
Here is the relevant part:
"To find out how a pulse palpation would have been carried out by a doctor back in 1888, I contacted professor Karin Johannisson at Uppsala University, who, besides from being a doctor of both medicine and physiology, is also a renowned scientist into medical history with a number of published and highly rewarded books on the subject. This is the answer I received:
" I consulted my own book "Tecknen" (which would translate into "The signs"), which partly deals with the history of medical examinations, and where I published four pictures of pulse palpation, all of them details of Dutch paintings. In all of the cases, the doctors thumb is placed on the back of the hand or the upper side of the wrist, though with some variations between the pictures. On page 31, I describe Hufelands directions from 1839, stating that three or four fingers should be used at the wrist.
That a doctor would have used his thumb to palpate the pulse is not credible.
Karin Johannisson".
The best,
Fisherman
Johnston never mentions the coagulation state of the blood on her neck, but obviously if the thicker stream in the rut was clotted, then the thin layer on her neck would have been even more so.
Incidentally, I fail to see in what regard Johnstons testimony points him out as medical expertise. He is quite concise about what he saw and did, and he is not offering his knowledge to a board of colleauges but to an inquest into Stride´s death.
"this is Victorian medicine"
Which means nothing. Same procedures then. If you read my dissertation you will find that the expertise on the area can pin this.
Here is the relevant part:
"To find out how a pulse palpation would have been carried out by a doctor back in 1888, I contacted professor Karin Johannisson at Uppsala University, who, besides from being a doctor of both medicine and physiology, is also a renowned scientist into medical history with a number of published and highly rewarded books on the subject. This is the answer I received:
" I consulted my own book "Tecknen" (which would translate into "The signs"), which partly deals with the history of medical examinations, and where I published four pictures of pulse palpation, all of them details of Dutch paintings. In all of the cases, the doctors thumb is placed on the back of the hand or the upper side of the wrist, though with some variations between the pictures. On page 31, I describe Hufelands directions from 1839, stating that three or four fingers should be used at the wrist.
That a doctor would have used his thumb to palpate the pulse is not credible.
Karin Johannisson".
The best,
Fisherman
do I sound like Wescott now? But it truly is), as it's essentially been copied and pasted from pieces and parts from my dissertation, but I buffed up the socialist rhetoric into Ben Feigenbaum proportions. (It's for an appointment at the Marc Bloch Center, so the socialist rhetoric is pretty self-explanatory.)
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