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Body Snatching in the 1800s

Famous People

(Hodgekiss)

  • Burk and Hare in Edinburgh
  • "accidental" career
  • murdered 15 people over the course of this career
  • Hare gave evidence that Burke was guilty so that he wouldn't be prosecuted as well
  • Burke had a gruesome death

(Science Museum U.K.)

Sources

History. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.

history.co.uk. No date. Web. 10/6/15

Hodgekiss. "Body Snatching...". dailymail.co.uk.

10/30/14. Web. 10/6/15.

PBS. "Body Snatching Around the World". pbs.org.

No date. Web. 10/7/15

Science Museum U.K. "William Burke and William Hare".

sciencemuseum.org.uk. No date. Web. 10/7/15

What is Body Snatching?

How Did it Work? What Was Involved?

What Happened Eventually?

(Albee)

  • an illegal practice that involves taking a dead body from its grave
  • common around 200 years ago
  • done by resurrectionists hired by medical students or doctors for educational purposes
  • first case was in 1319, in Italy

(Hodgekiss)

  • the students and doctors would hire resurrectionists dig up the bodies
  • would cut up and divide the body parts, putting all of the same body parts together
  • done in the winter so the corpses wouldn't decompose as quickly
  • would preserve them and later dissect them or practice things like amputations
  • they would purposely not take jewelery or clothing so that they couldn't be accused of a felony
  • people started to guard their family members' graves
  • graves were made harder to get into
  • later, there was a law made that allowed doctors/medical students to only take the bodies that hadn't been claimed by their relatives

(PBS)

(Hodgekiss)

Why Did It Happen?

(BBC)

(Bettmann)

  • allowed medical students to learn about anatomy and how organs were made up in the body
  • allowed doctors to practice and improve their skills
  • some people stole the bodies to hold for ransom, and later sell to their families again
  • Abe Lincoln

(Hodgekiss)

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