Consumption Cottage An Illinois cottage where an unusually large number of tenants died of consumption.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 24, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged consumption , Consumption Cottage , Effingham County Illinois , hoodoo houses , infectious disease , sick houses , tuberculosis , World TB Day
Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die The custom of kissing the corpse often led to death from infectious disease.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 20, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged diphtheria , indirect poisoning , infectious disease , Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die , kissing the corpse , meningitis , perils of kissing the corpse , poisoning , smallpox , The Perils of Kissing the Corpse , Victorian funerals , Victorian mourning , Victorian mourning customs
Poisonous Kisses: A Valentine’s Day PSA Doctors want you to know about the perils of poisonous kisses: “In many instances of the customary kissing, there is a great vicious bloodhound lying hidden, ready to strike his poisonous fangs into the very flesh and bone of the unsuspecting individual…”
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 14, 2015
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged deadly kisses , infectious disease , poison kisses , poisonous kisses , Poisonous Kisses: A Valentine's Day PSA , Valentine's Day
