Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford

Name: Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford
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ISBN: 9780804747936

ISBN-10: 0804747938

ISBN-13: 9780804747936

Edition: 2003

Authors: Robert W. P. Cutler

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Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner’s jury verdict of murder—by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordan’s diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts. In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Founding of Leland Stanford Junior University



The Death of Mrs. Stanford



The Poland Water Poisoning



The Police Investigation



The Honolulu Inquest



The Stanford Party in Honolulu



The Stanford Party Returns Home



Bolstering Dr. Jordan's Diagnosis



The Cases of Shorey and Humphris



The Other Physicians



Perpetuating the Myth



Summing Up



Dr. Shorey and the Experiment Station



The "Ross Affair"



Professor Julius Goebel


Notes


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Index