Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 4 – Execution 1 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 Up the close and doun the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef. —19th-century Edinburgh skipping…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 3 – Punishment 1 Dec 20173 Dec 2025 ‘These men perform miracles, for they “raise the dead”, they are slave dealers, for they sell men ; they are amusing, for they furnish subjects for conversation; scientific, for they…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 2 – Protection 29 Nov 20173 Dec 2025 Last week we began a brief study into the trade and industry of the infamous "body-snatchers," those supposedly immoral and low collection of misfits who bravely and nobly provided the…
Medical History The Resurrection Men, Pt 1 – Extraction 27 Nov 201716 Dec 2017 Onyxfeld, Early Winter As I was recently traveling to the city of Onyxfeld, the train passed by a large, snow covered cemetery. The sight of it brought to mind a…