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I doubt that army paramedics of the British Colonial Wards of the 19th Century would have carried out many field hysterectomies or kidney transplants. They'd have sawn off quite a few limbs, though - so, Torso Killer beware!
I had posted earlier that it may have been a possibility that jack was a field surgeon or an assistant surgeon on the battle field, and that is how he may have developed the skills he used with the unfortunates.
Leads to another question as to his position of knives he may have brought back from the war.
"Position?" Anyways, knives are the wrong instrument. Scissors. Knives have a tendency to cut things you do not want cut . . . rather like what happened to Eddowes.
As for skills, he made the wrong incisions to access the abdomen.
Now, I assume you meant "kidney" rather than "liver" having been removed?
The points of Nov9 gave me the following idea (sorry, if someone has already told something like this, I am a newcomer to this thread):
A medic from the Crimean War gone nuts?!!
A possibility, no doubt. But why more than 30 years after the war?
All the best
Jukka
Hello Jukka,
there are a lot of colonial conflicts going on in the empire in the 19th century, so I asked which war war exactly was meant.
The First Boer War for example had been 1880/1881, the Second Anglo-Afghan war started in 1878 and was also concluded in 1881, the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 and the Anglo-Egyptian war was in 1882.
The Crimean War just came to mind by the abysmal sanitary conditions and lack of logistics which resulted in field hospitals that seemed more wracked slaughterhouses than places of healing.
But yes, thirty years is really too much time, seems unlikely someone would only go cuckoo after so long a time.
I'd wager the guess that a field medic or a soldier helping in a field hospital could be able to commit the crimes, but that is just speculation on my part and by no means worth anything.
Sorry for the offtopic, but what war exactly? The Crimean War? (Which is an interesting topic itself , did a short essay about it a few years ago.)
I owe you an apology for the mean bite, but I have been insulted by a bunch of morons on this site, and I thought you were going to go for the jugular also.
I guess it was just a defensive reaction. Sorry about that.
I had posted earlier that it may have been a possibility that jack was a field surgeon or an assistant surgeon on the battle field, and that is how he may have developed the skills he used with the unfortunates.
Leads to another question as to his position of knives he may have brought back from the war.
You said that you "did a short essay about it a few years ago." so maybe you could tell us if it could be possible that he could have learned his skills there.
It was just a hunch.
You know just to add something other than a butcher or barber or whatever.
he may have had a liver problem, when he returned from the war, and because he hated the unfortunates so much he removed their liver, a signature developed, the uterus removal was another psychological problem he had.
To suggest that's a viable one is to give him far more credit than he obviously deserves.
You were talking about his liver being damaged and him removing it from his victims as far as I understood you.
But he only took the kidney from one of his victims.
And I will neither go away nor refrain from correcting you when you are wrong or I disagree with your opinion. You have to accept that there may be a plurality of opinions regarding these cases and that your opinion is not the only viable.
If you really were a profiler you could have easily given proof. Instead you throw lame insults that even a 14 year old would be ashamed of using. Big surprise there.
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