The History of Burke and Hare, and of the Resurrectionist Times A Fragment from the Criminal Annals of Scotland

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_Early Prohibition of Dissection--Shakespeare's Tomb--The Progress of Anatomy--Curious Incident in Edinburgh--An Old Broadside Ballad on Body-Snatching--Tumults in Edinburgh and Glasgow--Female "Burkers"_, 16