The Italian Boy

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.

First sentence: George Beaman, surgeon to the parish of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, turned back the scalp of the corpse lying before him.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

Owl Books

Editions

8

Pages

400

ISBN

9780805078497

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