Murdered for Medicine

[danse_macabre]

It was an Edinburgh anatomist named Robert Knox who instigated anatomy's fatal PR blunder: the implicit sanctioning of murder for medicine. In 1828, one of Knox's assistants answered the door to find a pair of strangers in the courtyard with a cadaver at their feet. This was business as usual for anatomist of the day, and so Knox invited the men in

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[soradiofriendly]

And to think, the only thing I ever associated with Edinburgh was the Vaselines.