INDEX 



289 



Briiiton, D. G., 11, 12, 18 

 British Isles 



anatomical and pathological museums, 

 119' 



anatomy laws, 116 



as center of medical education, 115, 

 264 



cadaver availability, 116, 150 



closure of medical schools (1829), 150 



demand for cadavers, 117 



grave robbing, 264 



interest in anatomy, 116 



law of James I, 118 



rise of resurrectionists, 115-126, 265 



standardization boards, 117, 264 



student dissection, 264 



surgeon-anatomists, 115 



teaching anatomy, 116 

 Brookes, Joshua, proprietor of school of 



anatomy, London, 145 

 Brown, Emily, murdered in Baltimore, 



228-230 

 Brown, H.M., 11 

 Brown, Owen, body of, 232 

 Browning, W. W., 40 

 Brunner, John C, professor at Heidel- 

 berg, dissection activities, 108 

 Buck, A. H., 46, 88 

 Buddhism, in ancient China, 22, 258 

 Bulletin of Medical Research ('55), 254 

 Bully's Acre, Dublin, source of cadavers, 



129, 131,266 

 Burial 



ceremonies, of primitive, 14 



cremation, as early method of, 17 



gravestones, significance, 17 



in ancient 

 China, 21 

 India, 32 

 Japan, 23 



in Babylonia, 29 



motivating factor, 16 



of dead, primitive, 14 



of living humans, in ancient, 

 China, 21 

 Japan, 23 



of Neanderthal man, 16 



positions, 17 



Burke, William, Edinburgh murderer, 

 161-179,265 

 confession of, 172 

 hanging of, 172 



McDougal, Helen, accomplice, 161 

 murder of 



Docherty, Mary, 166 

 Patterson, Mary, 164 

 Simpson, Abigail, 163 

 Wilson, James, 165 

 public exhibition of body, 173 

 publicity about, 173-175 

 trial of, 172 

 Burr, C. W., 56, 157 



Cadavers 



abnormal specimens, 119 



attitude of surgeons and anatomists, 

 272 



cost of 



at Vermont Medical College, Wood- 

 stock, 215 

 in British Isles, 119 

 in Paris, 107-108 



demand for in British Isles, 116, 150 



evaluation as property, 118 



exportation from London, 151 



exportation of, 126 



gentlemen" resurrectionists, 118 



handling of, in modern France, 107 



Harrison, John Scott, as a, 239 



Magrath, Corney, as a, 128 



needed. United States, 254 



problems, Johns Hopkins, 230 



procurement of, 8 



"rascal resurrectionists, 119 



resurrectionists method of procure- 

 ment, 121 



scarcity, Edinburgh, 158 



seasonal acquisition. New England, 188 



secrecy 

 early American medical schools, 188 

 University of Vermont, 212 



student reaction to shortage, 121 



supply 



after Anatomy Act (1831), 205 

 at 



Leyden University, 110 



