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Body snatching

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

An Account of Body Snatching by Medical Students

 Fonds — Box Dk.7.54-64
Identifier: Coll-2236
Scope and Contents

'Twenty four hours of my pupillage'. An account of a grave robbing (body snatching) expedition by medical students in 1830 at a town probably on or near the coast in the Southeast of England. Written in later years by one of the participants. Anonymous.

Dates: 1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections
p. 41
p. 41

Burke and Hare scrapbook, c1829

 Item — Box EUA Acc.2015/005 (grey box)
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/A2/21/1
Scope and Contents

This volume contains ballads, news reports and posters, all connected with the trial of Burke and Hare for the West Port murders in 1828. Much of the material is unique and includes a letter written in Burke’s own blood taken from his head after his execution, said to have been written by Professor Alexander Monro. This complements his actual skeleton in the University of Edinburgh Anatomy Museum.

Dates: c1829
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Anatomy / Material ex Matthew Kauffman

Volume of minutes of on the "Ramshorn Resurrectionist Case"

 Fonds — Volume Dk.1.27
Identifier: Coll-2133
Scope and Contents

Volume on the "Ramshorn Resurrectionist Case", 1814. Minutes of evidence in the trail of Granville Sharp Pattison, lecturer in anatomy, Andrew Russell, lecturer in surgery, and Robert Munro and John McLean, students, all of Glasgow University, on a charge of violating the grave of Mrs. McAlister (sometimes spelt McAllister) in Ramshorn Churchyard, Glasgow 6-7 June 1814. With relevant press-cuttings.

Dates: 1814
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections