by Maledicta | Feb 5, 2018 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities
Most skeletons studied by doctors, anatomists, and medical students are made of plastic these days. But it wasn’t so long ago that every skeleton had once been a living person. It was never easy and seldom legal to acquire human skeletons. But as it also became...
by Maledicta | Nov 12, 2017 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities
Say it’s 1820, and you’re an uneducated lower-class chap with nights and weekends free who needs to pick up a few extra quid. You might consider the profitable, if criminal, profession of body snatching… In the early days of surgery, dissecting a corpse was...
