The Resurrection Men
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Superb. An excellent and informative video about an almost taboo subject sensitively and intelligently handled.
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Most interesting. More please
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more please,and thank you
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great voice - you should be doing HISTORY CHANNEL !!
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Brilliant stuff can we please have many more of these videos.
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Jim Clark
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Thank you for this fascinating video! Well done and very interesting. I hope you do more. I personally photograph tombstones and mausoleums in America.
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Why 1800-1832?
mayartay 5 years ago
During the 17th century the only legal supply of flesh came from the gallows. The 1800s saw a liberal regime of capital punishment. An average of 55 people were being hanged each year, but the medical schools needed around 500 cadavers. In 1832, due to a public outcry, a change in the law made the practice illegal and offered a legitimate supply of corpses to the surgeons. The corpse of any person who had died whilst an inmate in a parish or municipal workhouse was offered for dissection
eghman 5 years ago