Re:Jobs that no longer exist
by yoo1I on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:13AM
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This was highly illegal and frowned upon in polite society, but doctors needed the body parts to study anatomy and paid for them.
By chance I've recently read Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities", which uses the banker's messenger secretly moonlighting as such a resurrectionist digging up bodies at night, as a plot device. Quite a fun read.
Re:Jobs that no longer exist
by CM30 on Saturday October 15, 2016 @11:44AM
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And in addition to the body snatching, we also had serial killers who flat out murdered people to sell their bodies to medical schools. See, Burke and Hare.
By chance I've recently read Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities", which uses the banker's messenger secretly moonlighting as such a resurrectionist digging up bodies at night, as a plot device. Quite a fun read.