Posted on 06/25/2019 9:03:25 AM PDT by NRx
John Harrison, grandson of former president William Henry Harrison, went to the Medical College of Ohio searching for the body of a friend which had been stolen from its grave. What he found there shocked the nation, and drove a national discussion of the macabre practice of body snatching.
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There are some things I’d just as soon
not know about. This is one of them.
Not trying to hijack your thread, but Netflix has a good documentary on the Mayo clinic and how it started. This too was in the same era
Burke and Hare were the famous grave robbers in Scotland in the early 1800’s ( Also a Simon Pegg movie)
Burke was made into a wallet! It’s on display at Edinburg’s
Royal College of Surgeon’s museum.
OHIO PING!
Please let me know if you want on or off the Ohio Ping list.
“The “Harrison Horror” of 1878”
Body snatching a famous family.
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