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A virtue beyond all medicine : The Hanged Man s Hand, Gallows Tradition and
Healing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England
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Soc Hist Med
2015[Nov]; 28
(4
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From the eighteenth century through to the abolition of public executions in
England in 1868, the touch of a freshly hanged man's hand was sought after to
cure a variety of swellings, wens in particular. While the healing properties of
corpse hands in general were acknowledged and experimented with in early modern
medicine, the gallows cure achieved prominence during the second half of the
eighteenth century. What was it about the hanged man's hand (and it always was a
male appendage) that gave it such potency? While frequently denounced as a
disgusting 'superstition' in the press, this popular medical practice was
inadvertently legitimised and institutionalised by the authorities through
changes in execution procedure.