The crimes of Edinburgh’s Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in order to sell the corpses for medical research, have inspired countless books and even a grisly rhyme. Now author Mairi Kidd ...
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Dr Sam Caslin from Liverpool University visits Edinburgh in search of historical sources that explain the motivation for the notorious murders of Burke and Hare. The film looks at the expansion of ...
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The notorious Burke and Hare murders is another episode which can be told through the prism of the silver arrow. The 1793 winner of the papingo shoot whose medal hangs there is David Boyle ...
Find out how it was eradicated. Burke and Hare: The body snatchers In the 19th century, the dead bodies of criminals were often used by doctors to practice dissection. Find out about the grisly ...
(在19世纪)那个时代科学、工业,文化和医学蓬勃发展,文明的背后却隐藏着丧心病狂的十大事实,疯狂的尸体交易是其中之一,解剖学家和外科医生需要更多的尸体进行研究,因此诞生了抢尸人一职!
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Burke and Hare ran a lodging house, where they had access to itinerant and otherwise vulnerable victims, and the bodies disappeared into the anatomy theatres, leaving no evidence behind.