MaC
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It was to stop the body being used as a medical cadaver.
It horrified people at the time that medical students wanted to study on real bodies.....prisoners were often executed and their bodies handed over for dissection. The ultimate disgrace of dismemberment, like the hung drawn and quartered of the past.
Burke and Hare were graverobbers who decided it was easier just to take the living rather than dig up the pre-deceased.
M
It horrified people at the time that medical students wanted to study on real bodies.....prisoners were often executed and their bodies handed over for dissection. The ultimate disgrace of dismemberment, like the hung drawn and quartered of the past.
Burke and Hare were graverobbers who decided it was easier just to take the living rather than dig up the pre-deceased.
M