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Body Snatchers
by James Moores Ball
Dorset Press, New York, 1989, 216pp, HC
[Europe, England, Scotland BC-16C; also Western, 17-19C]
Chapters
- Anatomical Study in Ancient Times
- Mondino, The Restorer of Anatomy
- Anatomical Study in the Middle Ages
- Resurrection Days
- The Resurrectionists at High Tide
- The Edinburgh Murders: Burke and Hare
- Robert Knox, the Anatomist
- Crimes of the London Resurrectionists
- Sir Astley Cooper and the Resurrectionists
- Respectable Resurrectionists
- A Resurrection-man's Resurrected Diary
- Stratagems and Anecdotes of the Resurrectionists
- SOme Fugitive Resurrectionist Literature
- The Resurrectionists in General Literature
- Passage of the Anatomy Act
- Early Anatomical Instruction in the United States
Illustrations
- The Sack-'em-Up-Man
- Galen
- Hippocrates
- Aristotle
- The Conversion of Galen
- Frederick II
- Adam and Eve, by John Van Eyck
- Anatomical Figure by Ricardus Hela, 1493
- Anatomical Figure from Laurentius Phryesen, 1418
- Joannes Guinterius, Winter of Andernach
- Title-page of the Fabrica, 1543
- Joannes Oporinus
- James Borthwick (1615-1675)
- The "Tenement" in Dickson's Close
- Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713)
- View of Leyden University as it appeared in 1614
- Andreas Stog's engraving of Pieter Paaw's Theatre of Anatomy, 1589
- The Surgeons' Hall of 1697
- James Hamilton
- Skeleton and Dissection
- Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767)
- Alexander Monro secundus (1733-1817)
- Bursæ , Mucosæ of the Upper and Lower
Extremities
- William Cheselden (1688-1752)
- Title-page of Helkiah Crooke's Microkosmographia
- Tomas Linacre (1460-1524)
- John Kaye (Caius), (1510-1573)
- Henry VIII, presenting a Charter to the Barber-Surgeons of London
- Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S.
- William Burke as he appeared at the Bar
- William Hare as he appeared at the Bar
- Helen McDougal as she appeared at the Bar
- Margaret Laire or Hare as she appeared in the Witness-Box
- South-West Corner of Surgeons' Square in 1829
- Execution of William Burke
- Alexander Munro tertius (1773-1859)
- Werner Rolfinck (1599-1673)
- John Barclay, M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed.
- Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842)
- Robert Knox (1791-1862)
- Caricature of Robert Knox
- Cast of the Human Body by John Goodsir (1814-1867)
- Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841)
- John Hunter (1728-1793)
- Robert Liston (1794-1847)
- Valentine Mott (1785-1865)
- The Dissecting Room (Rowlandson)
- Mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
- Another Form of Mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
- Upright Mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
- Portrait of "Daft Jamie"
- Messrs. Cruncher and Son
- Henry Warburton (1784-1858)
- Thomas Wakley (1795-1862)
- James Wardrop (1782-1869)
- Thomas Cadwalader (1708-1779)
- Thomas Wood's Announcement in the New York Weekley Postboy of 17th January 1752, of the First Course of Anatomical Lectures given in British America
- William Hunter (1720-1777) of Newport, R.I.
- William Shippen, jun. (1736-1808), the First Professor of Anatomy in British America
- Portrait of John Morgan (1735-1789), Founder of Medical Instruction in British America
- Two of the Fothergill Crayons, at the Pennsylvania Hospital, which were used by William Shippen, jun., in his Lectures on Anatomy