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

Tags: Anatomists, Apothecaries, Apprentices, Bodysnatching, Edinburgh, Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Medical Students, Incorporation of Barber Surgeons

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)…

RCSEd Archive Catalogue

Tags: Edinburgh, Elsie Inglis, Extramural Teaching, Lothian Surgical Audit, Medical Students, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, School of Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Edinburgh, Society of Barbers, Surgeons, Surgeons' Hall Museums, Surgery, TQ, Wellcome Trust

RCSEd Archive Catalogue

We are delighted to announce that the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Institutional Archive is now available to researchers, with thousands of records now digitally available for the first time, and catalogued to item-level.…