tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post801802442100815230..comments2024-03-27T03:22:46.572-07:00Comments on The Cat's Meat Shop: It Is Not Always a Sign of Partial InsanityLee Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-4772320232283548412011-01-30T09:10:01.198-08:002011-01-30T09:10:01.198-08:00No, never come across that case ... will have a lo...No, never come across that case ... will have a look online ... cheers, LeeLee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-66712522020048427582011-01-30T08:55:08.189-08:002011-01-30T08:55:08.189-08:00Lee, it was a fairly common attitude in the 19th c...Lee, it was a fairly common attitude in the 19th century. Have you heard of the Marsden girls? Their French governess reported this "habit" to their doctor father, who was extremely distressed and gave her carte blanche to "restrain them". She reported that despite her tying their hands up at night, they still continued in this practise (I think she was a dirty minded cow, but ignore that). The children were 12, 10, 8 and 6. The governess kept on about it, despite these little girls praying for deliverance and crying and claiming they did not know what the governess was talking about. Due to the anti-science and hysteria about this subject, the father (the mother was dead) decided they should leave for France for fear his patients should find out. By the time Marsden was warned by a concerned neighbour in France that his daughters were being tortured by their governess, the eldest was dead and the rest quiet, broken little girls, who never married. It was a terrible scandal in France and England, about 1866. Poor little girls and such stupid people - one of the girls cried out that she did not know what the governess was talking about - which I can well believe, the roundabout language that the father and the governess employed - and that if she was doing what she was accused of, it must have been in her sleep. It makes my heart ache.Fiz (FizzieLou on Twitter)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-1040101723723934572011-01-28T15:36:48.637-08:002011-01-28T15:36:48.637-08:00It's a bit opaque, but I think he's just s...It's a bit opaque, but I think he's just saying that both 'issues' were going unnoticed by doctors who were too polite to ask about them.Lee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-69591810984406620712011-01-28T15:15:02.795-08:002011-01-28T15:15:02.795-08:00I don't get the connection. Abortion is caused...I don't get the connection. Abortion is caused by masturbation? that would certainly make life....interesting.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02495558736099438348noreply@blogger.com