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"Although the exhumation scenes are memorable (and literally heart-wrenching), DeFelice treats the distraught families' desperate actions with sympathy and respect. The state of mid-nineteenth-century medicine, in which ministrations of trained practitioners were often as ineffective as superstitious self-doctoring, is skillfully conveyed.DeFelice, Cynthia C. is the author of 'Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker' with ISBN 9780374346690 and ISBN 0374346690.
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