A grave robber who would steal cadavers and sell them for dissection.
"The key to it all was his long career as a resurrectionist; his notorious recklessness about getting subjects. There was that body of a young girl brought from New Hampshire that suddenly appeared in the College last year. Resurrectionists, after all, would do anything in these hard times to procure their income. Many cut off heads and sold those separately to specialists in optics or other superior organs."
Simon Schama, Dead Certainties (1991).
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