In the 19th century, medical education was making...  ...’s.Large and small refer to adult and child corpses . The diary is in the possession of the Hunterian...

The Obscura Society of New York City invites you to a lecture by Professor Sarah Tarlow on English executions during the 18th and 19th centuries.By the middle of the eighteenth century in England, people could be execute...

In 18th century England, changes in the way medica...  ...e trained sparked a new business: body-snatching. Corpses were needed for educational dissections, and ente...

For some, there's no rest even in death. Read these crazy stories about the experiences of seven dead bodies. For example, pianist André Tchaíkowsky made his Shakespearean debut after his death. Despite his demise in...