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Burke and Hare


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Edinburgh's reputation for medical excellence was jeopardized in the 1820s by growing public vigilance against grave-robbing for dissection purposes. Rather than turn resurrectionists, Burke and Hare smothered a sick lodger ...

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Burke and Hare
in The Oxford Companion to the Brontës Length: 177 words
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