The necessity of disinterment, under existing circumstances, being an apology, &c., in a letter to the Mayor of Exeter
By: by William Cooke, Surgeon
Publisher: Published by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row
Published: 1827
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Exhumation; Dissection; Human dissection; Grave Robbing; Body snatching
Notes: Colophon: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street.

A letter written in self-defence and to argue for the necessity of anatomical dissection. A body taken from a grave was found in the author's home in Exeter: there was a court case in London in which he was acquitted.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Maggs Note: Disbound