The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812: To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy ActBailey, James Blake
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The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812: To Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act
Bailey, James Blake
Body snatching
Holmes (John) and Peter Williams, convicted of robbery from grave, 59.
Hornig, or Harnige, mentioned in Diary, 145, 147.
Hullock (Baron), summing up in trial of Davies and others, 97.
Hutton (Jack) mentioned. See Diary, _passim_.
Inspectors of Anatomy, appointment, 116.
Ireland, supply of bodies from, 87.
Iron coffin, 76.
illustration of, 78.
Italian boy, the. See _Ferrari (Carlo)_.
Italy, supply of bodies in, 121.
Lambert, mentioned in Diary, 165.
_Lancet_, the, and the Anatomy Bill, 105.
Large small, meaning of, 71.
Law relating to body-snatching, 90.
Lawrence (Sir W.), on anatomical teaching abroad, 118.
Lee (Edward), execution, &c., of, 93.
Light (Tom), biographical notice of, 132.
at Hatton Garden, for body-snatching, 92.
See also Diary, _passim_.
Lincoln's Inn Fields, bodies of murderers conveyed to, 23.
Liverpool, bodies shipped as "bitter salts," 82.
London Hospital, mentioned in Diary. See Diary, _passim_.
Longmore (Sir Thomas), obtained Diary, and presented it to Royal
College of Surgeons, vi., 124.
Lynn. See Rex _v._ Lynn.
Lytton (Lord). _Lucretia_, resurrection-man in, 17.
Macaulay, Alderman, extract from diary of, 23.
Macintire (John) buried alive, and rescued by resurrection-men, 65.
May (James), arrest and trial of, 107.
respite and death of, 110.
verse by, 110.
biographical notice of, 112.
Mayo (H.), _post mortem_ of the Italian boy, 57.
Millard (W.), account of, 162, 163.
Mills (Mr.), buys teeth of Italian boy, 109.
Moir (D. M.). _Mansie Wauch_, refers to body-snatching, 17.
Monsey (Messenger), _post mortem_ on, 36.
Moon, full, interfered with Resurrectionists, 124.
Mordecai, the Jew, 72, 140.
Mortsafes in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, 76.
illustrations of, 41, 74, 76.
Moss (Dr.) of Warrington, 96.
"Muddle (Jasper), Confessions of" (by Albert Smith), 17.
Murderers, dissection of, agitation against, 99.
repealed, 115.
drawings of heads of, 26.
Murphy, stealing teeth, 71.
Murray (Sir James), Inspector of Anatomy, 117.
Naples (Joseph), biographical notice of, 136.
method of working, 64.
writer of Diary, 127.
Newington, bodies obtained from. See Diary, _passim_.
Nicholls (Fr.), advertisement of Lectures, 42.
Nourse (Edward), advertisement of Lectures, 41.
Paris, supply of bodies in, 119.
Partridge (Richard), arrest of Bishop and Williams, 108.
body of Bishop given to, 28.
_post mortem_ of the Italian boy, 57.
Patrick, a Resurrectionist, 133.
Patterson (G. S.) referred to, 15.
Pigburn (Fanny), murder of, by Bishop and Williams, 109.
"Plough" public-house, 175.
Portugal, supply of bodies in, 122.
Pott (Percivall), Lectures on Surgery, 42.
Power (D'Arcy), History of Anatomical Schools, referred to, 43.
See _South (J. F.)_.
Prosecutions for Body-snatching, 90.
Provincial schools, supply of, 81.
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