MDMD: Medical students

[Kris Majer]

Hello,

Hope it's okay to post from chapters 2&3 already, (Dave?). This is partly
ch1 & partly ch3:

p.9 "had a riotous throng of medical students taken what they deem'd to be
my Cadaver back beneath the somber groins of their College..."

p.15 "Mason has been shov'd about and borne along in riots of sailors
attempting to wrest from bands of Medical Students the bodies of Shipmates
come to grief ashore, too far from the Safety of the Sea, ..."

My my. Those medical students are a menace. The description here sounds like
that of body snatchers of some sort, lurking in the shadows, ready to take
their prey to their hideouts and perform some nasty operations on them.
Creepy people, no doubt. Excuse my ignorance of that particular time in
history, but I suppose medical investigation was no easy task and hence this
strange practice of holding on to whatever one can find. It's interesting to
note that the narrator capitalizes them while the Rev'd doesn't - surely not
a slip in a novel where Capital Letters are so meticulously distributed. I
also had a few things to say about capitalized vs non-capitalized in the
exchanged letters of the protagonists, but I think Dave has already
mentioned that he's going to delve into that part. So I won't interfere
here.

Kris

PS. Reading M&D for the first time.




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