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The Inhumanists
Cecil Howard Turner
Hardbound
286 pages
Illustrated
Publisher: Alexander Ouseley, London
Date Published: 1932
A rare and lively true account of the grave-robbing Resurrectionists and
Body Snatchers in Scotland and England during the early 1800s.
A study of the grave robbers who stole bodies and sold them to surgeons for
dissection. From page 16:
In less than half-an-hour, in daylight or at the best in gathering dusk,
they succeeded in rifling a grave that had baffled all the ingenuity and determination
of the most practiced professional Scottish body-snatchers who could be persuaded by
promises of lavish remuneration to attempt the task. Only the keen brain of Liston
(famous Anatomist) could have conceived the audacious scheme of a swift raid on the
burial ground by daylight, before the night-watch was set.
Only the incomparable and amost incredible dexterity of (Ben) Crouch could have carried
out the plan in the short time of their disposal. Several feet of earth, no longer losely
packed, but welded by weeks of rainfall and settlement into comparative cohesion and
solidarity, to be excaved; a strongly carpentered coffin to be burst open and the body
extracted; the booty to be carried some distance to the waiting conveyance without exciting
comment; only a combination of the strength and cunning ofa past-master of the unholy craft
of the body-snatcher could have accomplished such a seeming miracle.
This volume came from the collection of a discrete owner.
The book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and bright with gentle light wear to it's cover.
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