Answer to a pamphlet entitled The medical school of Edinburgh.

Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Answer to a pamphlet entitled The medical school of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drat relations would never object to have the particular part examined, provided the surgeons would not carry the half of the entrails away with them, which they are in the common practice of doing, and which I am sure is the reason that people will not allow their friends to be opened- Our pamphleteer also means to contra-* diet, that dead bodies were ever detected carrying through the streets. But I beg leave to differ from him there; they have been seen carrying through the public streets in open day, (in baskets, in gigs, in hackney coaches, in boxes, and in various other shapes,) by some of the most re¬ spectable inhabitants of Edinburgh ; and more, they have been hung up at windows in the sight of seyera] people, and there are persons living in Edinburgh, who make a common traffic of this, the on¬ ly visible means they - have for subsist¬ ence, and are now making money by this 'i means, viz. by retailing human flesh to the