Surgeons’ Apprentices: Bodysnatching and other Immoral Behaviour in 18th-Century Edinburgh

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Surgeons’ Apprentices: Bodysnatching and other Immoral Behaviour in 18th-Century Edinburgh

‘That each Apprentice who should be convicted of raising or attempting to raise the dead from their graves should forfeit their Freedom, and all privilege competent to them by their indentures and be extruded their Master’s Service’ (Act of the Surgeon Apothecaries, April 17, 1725)…