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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
  1. Anatomical Study in Ancient Times
  2. Mondino, The Restorer of Anatomy
  3. Anatomical Study in the Middle Ages
  4. Resurrection Days
  5. The Resurrectionists at High Tide
  6. The Edinburgh Murders: Burke and Hare
  7. Robert Knox, the Anatomist
  8. Crimes of the London Resurrectionists
  9. Sir Astley Cooper and the Resurrectionists
  10. Respectable Resurrectionists
  11. A Resurrection-man's Resurrected Diary
  12. Stratagems and Anecdotes of the Resurrectionists
  13. SOme Fugitive Resurrectionist Literature
  14. The Resurrectionists in General Literature
  15. Passage of the Anatomy Act
  16. Early Anatomical Instruction in the United States
    Illustrations
  1. The Sack-'em-Up-Man
  2. Galen
  3. Hippocrates
  4. Aristotle
  5. The Conversion of Galen
  6. Frederick II
  7. Adam and Eve, by John Van Eyck
  8. Anatomical Figure by Ricardus Hela, 1493
  9. Anatomical Figure from Laurentius Phryesen, 1418
  10. Joannes Guinterius, Winter of Andernach
  11. Title-page of the Fabrica, 1543
  12. Joannes Oporinus
  13. James Borthwick (1615-1675)
  14. The "Tenement" in Dickson's Close
  15. Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713)
  16. View of Leyden University as it appeared in 1614
  17. Andreas Stog's engraving of Pieter Paaw's Theatre of Anatomy, 1589
  18. The Surgeons' Hall of 1697
  19. James Hamilton
  20. Skeleton and Dissection
  21. Alexander Monro primus (1697-1767)
  22. Alexander Monro secundus (1733-1817)
  23. Bursæ , Mucosæ of the Upper and Lower Extremities
  24. William Cheselden (1688-1752)
  25. Title-page of Helkiah Crooke's Microkosmographia
  26. Tomas Linacre (1460-1524)
  27. John Kaye (Caius), (1510-1573)
  28. Henry VIII, presenting a Charter to the Barber-Surgeons of London
  29. Joshua Brookes, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S.
  30. William Burke as he appeared at the Bar
  31. William Hare as he appeared at the Bar
  32. Helen McDougal as she appeared at the Bar
  33. Margaret Laire or Hare as she appeared in the Witness-Box
  34. South-West Corner of Surgeons' Square in 1829
  35. Execution of William Burke
  36. Alexander Munro tertius (1773-1859)
  37. Werner Rolfinck (1599-1673)
  38. John Barclay, M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed.
  39. Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842)
  40. Robert Knox (1791-1862)
  41. Caricature of Robert Knox
  42. Cast of the Human Body by John Goodsir (1814-1867)
  43. Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841)
  44. John Hunter (1728-1793)
  45. Robert Liston (1794-1847)
  46. Valentine Mott (1785-1865)
  47. The Dissecting Room (Rowlandson)
  48. Mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
  49. Another Form of Mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
  50. Upright Mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh
  51. Portrait of "Daft Jamie"
  52. Messrs. Cruncher and Son
  53. Henry Warburton (1784-1858)
  54. Thomas Wakley (1795-1862)
  55. James Wardrop (1782-1869)
  56. Thomas Cadwalader (1708-1779)
  57. 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
  58. William Hunter (1720-1777) of Newport, R.I.
  59. William Shippen, jun. (1736-1808), the First Professor of Anatomy in British America
  60. Portrait of John Morgan (1735-1789), Founder of Medical Instruction in British America
  61. Two of the Fothergill Crayons, at the Pennsylvania Hospital, which were used by William Shippen, jun., in his Lectures on Anatomy