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Before 1832, there were insufficient cadavers legitimately available for the study and teaching of anatomy in Britain's medical schools. As medical science began to flourish in the early nineteenth century, the demand for cadavers rose sharply, but at the same time the legal supply failed to keep pace. One of the main sources—the bodies of executed criminals—had begun to dry up owing to a reduction in the number of executions being carried out in the early nineteenth century. The situation of too few corpses being available to doctors for demonstrating anatomical dissection to growing numbers of students attracted criminal elements willing to obtain specimens by any means. As at similar institutions, doctors teaching at the Edinburgh Medical School, which was universally renowned for medical sciences, relied increasingly on body-snatchers for a steady supply of "anatomical subjects". The activities of these so-called "resurrectionists" gave rise to particular public fear and revulsion,but, such were the financial inducements, the illegal trade continued to grow. It was a short step from grave-robbing to murder. Step forward two enterprising individuals, William Burke and William Hare (Burke & Hare). They roamed the streets of Edinburgh after dark murdering victims and selling the bodies to Edinburgh Medical School - no questions asked. Eventually they were caught after 16 murders and were convicted on Christmas morning 1828 and later hanged. A final irony was that their bodies were dissected at Edinburgh Medical School. Merry Xmas. The original photograph was processed using a bleach bypass, then a black and white layer created, then both images merged to create the effect shown.

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, ocupado Canon EOS 650D 01/06 2017 A imagem tirada com 18.0mm, f/11.0s, 30/1s, ISO 100