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
Tuson, refuses to buy body of Italian boy, 109.
Twyford (Mr.), statement as to number of prosecutions at Worship
St., 92.
Tyburn, bodies taken from, 20.
Ure (Nat.), mentioned, 154.
Veitch (A. D.), on Wilson's supposed Burking, viii.
Vickers (Mr.), mentioned in Diary, _passim_.
Walsh, Catherine, murder of, viii.
Warburton's Act. See _Anatomy Bill_ and _Anatomy Act_.
Warren (Samuel), _Diary of a late Physician_, quoted, 15.
Warrington, prosecution of John Davies and others at, 95.
Wetherfield (Mr.), _post mortem_ of the Italian boy, 57.
"White Horse" public-house. See Diary, _passim_.
Whitechapel, bodies obtained from. See Diary, _passim_.
Williams, and illicit trade in glass, 112.
See also _Bishop and Williams_.
Williams (Peter). See Holmes (John).
Wilson (James), bodies sold to. See Diary, _passim_.
Wilson (John), "Burking by means of snuff," ix.
Wood (Mr.), death of, from seeing a body dissected, 39.
Workhouses, number of deaths in, 31.
Wortley, mentioned in Diary, 161.
Wygate or Wiegate, bodies obtained from. See Diary, _passim_.
Yarmouth, body-snatching at, 81.
Young (Sidney), _Annals of the Barber-Surgeons_, quoted, 18, 20.
_Plymouth: W. Brendon and Son, Printers._
Footnotes:
[1] See _Sketch of the Life of Robert Knox_, by HENRY LONSDALE (London,
1870); and _The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist
Times_, by GEORGE MACGREGOR (Glasgow, 1884).
[2] It may be interesting to mention that Albert Smith's remuneration for
these papers was five shillings per page of three columns.
[3] _Annals of the Barber Surgeons_, by SIDNEY YOUNG, p. 317.
[4] SOUTH and D'ARCY POWER, _Memorials of the Craft of Surgery_, p. 233,
_note_.
[5] YOUNG, _loc. cit._ p. 349.
[6] _Academy_, vol. vi. p. 208, 1874.
[7] For the portraits of Bishop and Williams see p. 112.
[8] _Hospital Gazette_, from Sep. 13, 1890, to March 7, 1891.
[9] This Committee was appointed by the House of Commons in 1828, to take
evidence and report on the necessity of obtaining bodies for anatomical
purposes. The work of the Committee is referred to at greater length on p.
102.
[10] The letter has no signature.
[11] See also p. 107.
[12] _Autobiographical Recollections of the Medical Profession_, p. 101.
[13] _Lancet_, 1896, vol. i. p. 187.
[14] _Memorials of John Flint South_, by C. T. FELTOE, 1884, p. 100.
[15] _Life of Sir Astley Cooper_, vol. i. p. 354.
[16] See illustration.
[17] See two following illustrations.
[18] CAMERON, _History of Roy. Coll. Surgeons in Ireland_, p. 113.
[19] _Use of the Dead to the Living._
[20] _D. and R. Nisi Prius Repts._ i. 13.
[21] See also page 56.
[22] See page vi.
[23] _Life of Sir Astley Cooper_, vol. i. p. 422.
[24] Cannot find out his surname.
[25] _Loc. cit._ vol. i. _passim_.
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