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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BAILEY, James Blake ( – 1897)

– 1897

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1896

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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 ( – 1897)

First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…