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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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