Curious cases of flagellation in France : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan.

Date:
1901
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Curious cases of flagellation in France : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Page Preface to the First Edition. v Preface ix Congo Atrocities xin Policeman refuses to Flog . xiv Cruelty to Natives xv Boer Sjambokked to Death, xvr Flogging Blacks xvi Beautiful Girl publicly Whipped xviii Old Law against Kissing .. xix Crusaders with Cowhides .. xix Flogged by his Wife xx A Lynching Society xxi Flagellation in France from a medical and historical Standpoint 3 What is Flagellation? 3 In Defence of the Birch .... 5 Historical Flagellations 9 Idiosyncratic Flagellation ... 10 Beneath the Lash 12 Disciplinary Flagellation .... 18 In the Police Courts 21 The Use of the Birch 22 In the Coroner’s Court 23 Whipping v. Imprisonment.. 25 Page Torture by Electricity as a Substitute for Flogging ... 26 How John Bull gets his Daugh- ters Whipped 28 The Whip in Germany 33 The Wanton Whipping of the Lady of Liancourt 40 The Whipping of Women in the United States 58 Assaults upon Women 60 Drawn nearly Naked into the Street 62 Naked and hunted like a Wild Beast 63 Police try to stop Assaults on Women 64 Gov. Stephens declines to help. 65 Made Insane by the Stripping of Miss Hesser 67 The Cost of a Kiss 69 A Wife beaten by her Hus- band’s Friend 73 The Marchioness de Rozen .. 76 The Chevalier de Boufflers .. 78 Theroigne de Mericourt 82 The Invention of [a Royal Mistress 84