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En 1828, Edimburgo era la capital mundial de la medicina, pero tenía un problema: faltaban cadáveres para estudiar. La ley solo permitía diseccionar criminales ejecutados, y la demanda de los estudiantes superaba la oferta.
Aquí es donde el capitalismo más oscuro entró en juego. William Burke y William Hare decidieron que, si no había muertos naturales, ellos mismos los fabricarían. 💀🩺
#Historia #TrueCrime #Edimburgo #Medicina #BurkeAndHare
"The Specimens" by Mairi Kidd tells the story of the infamous Burke and Hare, Resurrectionists, through the eyes of the women in their lives. #bookrecommendations #tbrlist #historicalfiction #fiction #burkeandhare #thespecimens #mairikidd

Scotland has a shortage of dead bodies for medical student training, report finds | STV News

How do you solve a problem like this? Sensitive business increasing donors. Hope there are no modern-day counterparts of Burke and Hare getting any funny ideas 😬 💀

#Medicine #BurkeAndHare
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scotland-has-a-shortage-of-dead-bodies-for-medical-student-training-report-finds

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders

Scotland has a shortage of dead bodies for student training

The report found 290 bodies were accepted by anatomy departments with 178 rejected in 2023/24.

STV News
Trip to Edinburgh today. It was supposed to be for research though it turned into more of an errand run for Uncle, but I did get to go to the Chambers Street museum to see the little mini coffins found on Arthur’s Seat. No one knows who made them but they date from around the early 1800s. One theory is they symbolised the victims of Burke and Hare. They’re going to be in my WIP though! #writing #Edinburgh #burkeandhare #research #wip

Taken this day, 2022, the Falkirk canal tunnel - part of which was excavated by the infamous Burke and Hare, before their Ressurection Men days in #Edinburgh https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/51980342253/

#Falkirk #FalkirkTunnel #ProspectHill #canal #ForthAndClydeCanal #canal #history #tunnel #BurkeAndHare #photography

Falkirk Tunnel 04

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“In the sunken woods that traverse the neighbourhood of the burying-ground the last glimmer failed them, and it became necessary to kindle a match and re-illumine one of the lanterns of the gig.  Thus, under the dripping trees, and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the scene of their unhallowed labours.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body-Snatcher

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