The Italian Boy: A Tale Of Murder And Body Snatching In 1830s London
by Sarah Wise /
2004 / English / EPUB
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Describes the 1831 murder of a young vagrant and the sale of his body to a London medical college, a case that led to the arrest of his killers, "resurrection men" who acted to satisfy the demand for fresh cadavers for the study of human anatomy.