Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead

On the Practice of Body Snatching




A letter by an anonymous writer to the editors of The New Castle Magazine, arguing for the importance of social need for dissection for social and scientific progress. Published in 1823, this letter stands as an odd example that dares to challenge the current cultural taboo of body-snatching.

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