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A letter addressed to the government, and the Royal College of Surgeons, founded on the diabolical and horrible practice of Burking : setting forth the necessity of placing anatomical schools on a different footing : to which is submitted, a plan for effecting the same.
Hanson, N.Date: [1831]- Pictures
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Miravan opening the tomb of his ancestors in search of treasure, discovers that the treasure is not gold but repose. Mezzotint by V. Green after Joseph Wright of Derby, 1772.
Wright, Joseph, 1734-1797.Date: Decem.r 18th 1772Reference: 46788i- Books
The Tyburn riot against the surgeons.
Linebaugh, Peter.Date: 1975- Books
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Suggestions on the best means of supplying anatomical schools, with opportunity of studying practical anatomy and surgery : in a letter addressed to the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne, Secretary of State for the Home Department / by J. Evans Riadore.
Riadore, John Evans, -1861.Date: 1831- Books
The Streatham grave robbers : a tale of attempted body snatching in Streatham in 1814 / by John W. Brown.
Brown, John W.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
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Body-snatching.
Date: 1824- Books
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Anatomy laws versus body-snatching.
Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911.Date: [1896]- Books
The history of Burke and Hare and of the resurrectionist times : a fragment from the criminal annals of Scotland / [George MacGregor].
Mac Gregor, George.Date: 1884- Books
Bodysnatchers and Benthamites : the implications of the Dead Body Bill for the London schools of anatomy, 1820-42 / M.J. Durey.
Durey, M. J.Date: 1976- Books
The Kentish bodysnatchers / by Carson Ritchie.
Ritchie, Carson.Date: 1994- Books
The true life and crimes of a body-snatcher / Patricia Gray and Paul Richards.
Gray, Patricia, active 1979.Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
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The body snatchers / James Moores Ball.
Ball, James Moores, 1863-1929.Date: 1989- Books
Body snatching : the robbing of graves for the education of physicians in early nineteenth century America / by Suzanne M. Shultz.
Shultz, Suzanne M.Date: 1992- Books
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Trial of William Burke and Helen M'Dougal : before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Wednesday, December 24. 1828, for the murder of Margery Campbell, or Docherty / Taken in short hand by Mr John Macnee, writer. With an illustrative preface.
Burke, William, 1792-1829.Date: 1829- Books
Scottish bodysnatchers / Norman Adams.
Adams, Norman, 1936-2011.Date: 2002- Books
Grave-robbers & bodysnatchers in Devon / Patricia Gray.
Gray, Patricia, active 1979.Date: 2009- Books
Grave disturbances : a history of the body snatchers / Geoffrey Abbott.
Abbott, Geoffrey.Date: 2006- Books
The dying game : a curious history of death / Melanie King.
King, Melanie.Date: 2008- Books
The true story of Burke & Hare / written and illustrated by John Mackay.
MacKay, John.Date: [1988], ©1988- Books
The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise.
Wise, Sarah (Writer on English history)Date: 2004- Books
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The trial of Wm. Burke & Helen M'Dougal, on Wednesday, December 24, 1828 : in the High Court of Justiciary, before the Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Clerk, and Lords Pitmilly, Meadowbank, and Mackenzie, on an indictment for the wilful murder of Mary Patterson, James Wilson and Madgy M'Gonegal ... in the Canongate and West Port, Edinburgh, for the purpose of sale to the medical faculty.
Date: [1829?]- Books
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The trial, sentence and confessions of Bishop, Williams, and May, at the Old Bailey, London, on Friday, December 2, 1831, for the murder of Carlo Ferrari, an Italian boy ; respite of May; execution of Bishop and Williams; together with an account of many circumstances connected with the period of their early life.
Bishop, John, -1831Date: 1831- Books
Burke & Hare / Owen Dudley Edwards.
Edwards, Owen Dudley.Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
The cultural politics of anatomy in 19th-century America : death, dissection, and embodied social identity / Michael Sappol.
Sappol, Michael.Date: 1997- Books
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Supplement to the trial of William Burke & Helen M'Dougal : containing the whole legal proceedings against William Hare, in order to bring him to trial for the murder of James Wilson, or Daft Jamie. With an appendix of curious and interesting information, regarding the late West-Port murders. Illustrated by a lithographic print of Mrs Hare and her child, as they appeared in the witness box / [William Burke].
Burke, William, 1792-1829.Date: 1829