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Thank you. Listener discretion is advised. The University of Edinburgh's medical school was founded in the early 18th century. It's the oldest medical school in the United Kingdom, and one of the oldest in the English-speaking world. Throughout its over

300-year history, it has been renowned as one of the best medical schools in the world.

Of course, to properly understand anatomy, which is critical to the study of surgery, students

needed to have access to the human body. This was a challenge in the early 1800s. Scottish law dictated where suitable

cadavers could come from, prisons, suicide victims, and orphans. This greatly limited the number

of bodies available for students to learn from. For example, the University of Edinburgh's

Medical School was only allocated five corpses a year for educational purposes.

With attendance growing rapidly, this was nowhere near enough.

But where there is demand, there is always someone willing to supply.

Resurrection men was the fanciful name given to grave robbers, the men who dug up freshly buried corpses with the intent of selling them to medical schools.

Family members went out of their way to ensure that the recently deceased were not prey to these resurrection men.

They paid watchmen to stand guard. They rented a large stone to put on top of the grave, or they placed cages called

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