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Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1
Morbid
The Evolution of the Dead Body
In the early 19th century, England trainee doctors were required to dissect at least three corpses before moving forward in their training. As these trainees needed more and more hands-on experience, the availability of bodies for dissection kind of became entangled a bit with the medical school's student fees. So this, what once was like, we need to do this training, that's important, so they can become good doctors, suddenly became entangled with money, and then it becomes something totally different. Money is the root of all people. It truly is.
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