Knox did not deal with Burke and Hare directly. The pair were paid £7 10 shillings for Donald’s body – that's roughly £508 in today's money. Image caption, A contemporary sketch of William ...

None more so than in the study of the anatomy of the human body, but this in turn lead to a severe shortage of corpses for teaching and research purposes. But for Burke and Hare this was a money ...

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