Book contents
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Chapter 10 - Occult Blood
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Dracula for Doctors
- Dracula for Doctors
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Body and Mind
- Chapter 2 Medico-Gothic
- Chapter 3 Stoker Medical Circles
- Chapter 4 Asylum Doctors
- Chapter 5 The Gothic Asylum
- Chapter 6 Renfield, The Pet Lunatic
- Chapter 7 The Other Patients
- Chapter 8 Diagnosing Dracula
- Chapter 9 Dread Disease and the Asylum
- Chapter 10 Occult Blood
- Chapter 11 Holes in the Skull
- Chapter 12 Dead, Alive or Undead
- Chapter 13 Therapeutic Armamentarium
- Chapter 14 Compelling Eyes
- Chapter 15 Beastliness
- Chapter 16 Vivisection or Animal Torture?
- Chapter 17 Demons and Doctors
- Chapter 18 Scientists and the Supernatural
- Chapter 19 And Dracula for Dentists …
- Chapter 20 Sex and Death
- Index
Summary
The importance of blood to human life is evident, perhaps especially on the battlefield, where surgeons gained their training experience in the past. In mythology, after the hero Perseus cut off the head of the snaky-haired monster Medusa he collected the blood; this comprised two properties, the good healing, and the bad poisonous. He passed these on to Athena, the goddess of wisdom and healing, and thence it came to Asclepius, the medical demi-god.
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- Dracula for DoctorsMedical Facts and Gothic Fantasies, pp. 77 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019