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Diana
Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 320
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 4:07 pm: |       |
This is one of those things where you dont know what youre looking for till you find it. I'm wondering if there were any epidemics of any kind in Whitechapel in 1888.
Disease has all kinds of ramifications. If a microbe attacks the central nervous system, the effects could conceivably be violent. Family situations can be destabilized so that a family member who was kept in check before is now free to wreak havoc. Why did Jack lay low in October? Why did he quit altogether after Kelly? He might have come down with something or even been killed by it. I admit I don't know what exactly I'm looking for and living in the U.S. I dont know how I could locate it. Its part of the overall background that needs to be filled in, and who knows, when we check the record something may jump out at us. |
Andrew Spallek
Chief Inspector
Username: Aspallek
Post Number: 573
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 30, 2004 - 10:25 am: | |
Diana,
That's an interesting theory, although I think you'd agree it's not terribly likely. Some people blame the Salem "witchhunts" on peculiar behavior induced by ingesting a certain bread mold.
Andy S. |
Diana
Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 322
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 30, 2004 - 11:00 pm: | |
Its just a blank space I'd like filled in |
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