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A Grisly Business

Body snatchers, grave robbers, ghouls, buzzards, resurrectionists: all these titles refer to those paid to venture into burial grounds and steal freshly buried bodies for medical study and dissection. This image, a rarity of its kind, shows resurrectionists at work in England.

1887
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Hablot Knight Browne, via Wikipedia Commons

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