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Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1

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The History of Galvanic Electricity

In 1751, England passed the Murder Act and this act allowed the bodies of recently executed murderers to be used for medical experimentation. In November 1818, a Scottish chemist Andrew Yuri did a truly theatrical demonstration in front of a theater of onlookers on a 35 year old murderer named Matthew Clydesdale. He believed that he could bring an entire corpse back to life.

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