Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2132

JAMES BLAKE BAILEY (fl. 1890) The diary of a resurrectionist, 1811-1812. Swan Sonnenschein 1896 184 pp., plates. 19.2 cm.

Until the passage of the Anatomy Act in 1832, which provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers, grave robbing by "resurrection men" was a common practice. This brutally vivid work includes firsthand accounts of the activities of the so-called "sack-em-up" men with satirical caricatures by Rowlandson, and photographs of "mortsafes," specially constructed theft-proof graves and tombs.

Cited references: Cushing B32; Osler 1888

Gift of John Martin, M.D.