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Article: Study findings from University of Jena provide new insights into nephrology.
- Article from:
- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 29, 2008
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"In the poor Whitechapel district of the East End of London in the fall of 1888, at least five prostitutes were brutally murdered, and in all but one case, also mutilated. The murderer was never caught and became known by his nickname 'Jack the Ripper'," scientists writing in the journal Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation report (see also Nephrology).
"The left kidney and the uterus were cut out and taken away from one of the victims named Catherine Eddowes. A kidney was also cut out of the body from another victim, but not taken away. Two weeks later, George Lusk, president of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, received a small cardboard box with half of a ...
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Article: Weekend: In the footsteps of The Ripper; As new theories are ...
The Birmingham Post (England);
February 2, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... piece of human liver that was said to have come from victim Catherine Eddowes. Depp plays Inspector Abberline, the detective in charge ... clock strikes the hour and a bell rings out, a toll that Catherine Eddowes would have heard 113 years before. Catherine was arrested ...
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