Body snatching
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 Body snatchers at work. A painting on the wall of a public house in Penicuik, Scotland |
Body snatching is the secret disinterment of corpses from graveyards. A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th century, was to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools. Those who practised body snatching were often called "resurrectionists" or "resurrection-men." A related act is grave robbery, uncovering a tomb or crypt to steal artifacts or personal effects rather than corpses.
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- Related: Anatomy murder, Grave robbery, History of medicine, History of anatomy, Thomas Sewall, Night Doctors, Rolia Whitinger
| Injunction: Stolen body burial blocked by executor... Injunction: Stolen body burial blocked by executor of will www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10496568 - Web |
| Echoes of the Scottish Resurrection Men Echoes of the Scottish Resurrection Men www.abdn.ac.uk/bodysnatchers - Web |
| Richmond, Virginia's Resurrection Man Richmond, Virginia's Resurrection Man www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/?s=chris+baker - Web |
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