Missouri's Mad Doctor McDowell:: Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine
Confederates, Cadavers and Macabre Medicine
Author: Victoria Cosner and Lorelei Shannon
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Body snatcher. Grave robber. Mad scientist. Brilliant surgeon. Delve into the macabre world of St. Louis's Dr. Joseph Nash McDowell, a man so loathed by the public that he wore body armor and so idolized by his anatomy students that they dug up corpses for his experiments. This ghoulish doctor cast a pall over the city and left a host of fiendish mysteries. Did his mother's ghost actually help him escape an angry mob? Did he really hang the corpse of his daughter in Hannibal's Mark Twain Cave? What very real horrors remained in his medical college after loyal Unionists drove him out? Dissect a life surrounded by speculation and a legend littered with ghosts.
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VICTORIA COSNER is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, specializing in 19th century mourning practices and material culture.
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