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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London

by Sarah Wise

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2004 · 387 pages

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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.

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