JB/159/229/002

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Afflictive Deaths. Simple modes of Punishment.

put to the faculty of respiration, or an chymical alteration
of a chymical nature produced either in
the blood or in the vital solids by water at the
degree of heat in question.

As to the severity comparative severity of these
different modes of punishment, where the immediate
cause of death in the same viz, the fever
we have no way of estimating it but by the durations;
& by that means if it were a uniform & known quantity it should seem one might estimate
it with tolerable accuracy. That would be
the severest death under which the patient linger'd
longest.

Embowelling Evisceration and in Poland – called quartering

Blowing out of the mouth of a Cannon in
India

Beheading.

Identifier: | JB/159/229/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field	afflictive deaths
Image	002	Titles	pulling to pieces / laceration to wild beasts / burning / boiling / embowelling
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	54052
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