Douglas Starr > Quotes

“Societies get the criminals they deserve-Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne”
― Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

“They put me in a”
― Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

“During Canada’s great cholera plague, some doctors gave milk transfusions in the belief that the “white corpuscles of milk were capable of being transformed into red blood corpuscles,” according to their reports.”
― Douglas Starr, Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

“Lacassagne personified the bourgeois qualities of order, education, and dignity; he was regular in his habits, a voluminous reader, dedicated to service, restrained, and self-deferential.”
― Douglas Starr, The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

“Under certain conditions the blood cells would clump. Others had seen this reaction before while mixing the blood of animals and people or of sick patients with healthy ones; they assumed it was triggered by fundamental differences in the bloods of various species or between healthy and sick blood.”
― Douglas Starr, Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce