The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812 by James Blake Bailey
The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812

James Blake Bailey

The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812

James Blake Bailey

138 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

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As The Butte Daily Post said in 1897, this book is a "gruesome publication." The Diary covers a unique vocation that thrived in the early nineteenth century: Resurrectionist. It was a job created out of a need for anatomy schools to acquire bodies...

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