The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes

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Index Abernethy, John, 82, 286n advocates, 225, 288n advocates depute, 130, 216, 274, 280n Aitken, John, 31, 43, 45–49, 272 Aitken, Thomas Johnstone, 31, 43, 48–49, 248, 272 Alison, Archibald, 216, 273 Alison, William Pulteney, 69, 70–71, 75–76, 194, 216, 276, 285n Alison’s Close, 19, 273 Alston, Hugh, 16–17, 110, 273 Anatomist, The, 3, 92 Anatomist’s Instructor, The, 156, 265 Anatomy Act, 4, 5, 33, 39, 257, 260–261, 265–266, 272 Anderson, John, 202–203 Anthropological Society of London, 88 Argyle Square Medical School, 267 Arrowsmith, 6 Audubon, John James, 95–96 Averill, Charles, 152–153 Ballingall, George, 50, 272 Barclay, John, 82, 93–94, 96 Béclard, Pierre Augustin, 94, 95 Begbie, Helen. See Miller, Helen Begbie, John, 44 Bell, Charles, 93, 95 Bell, George, 57 Bell, Joseph, 23 Bell’s Wynd, 32, 273 Bellingham, John, 179 Bentham, Jeremy, 33, 256, 260, 272 Binion, Ted, 298n Biomedical Tissue Services, 278n Bishop, John, 260–261 Black, Adam, 139 Black, Alexander, 21, 55–56, 145, 195–199, 202, 205, 208, 210, 216, 238, 274 Black, Alexander, junior, 205, 274, 298n Blackfriars Wynd, 74, 273 Blackwood’s Magazine, 3, 17, 25, 231, 255, 279n Body Snatcher, The, 3, 6, 92, 114 body snatchers. See resurrectionists body trade, 3, 36–42, 50, 96, 149, 154, 218, 226, 228, 248–249, 259, 265 Boyle, David, 222, 230, 244, 274 Braid, John, 44, 46–51 Bridie, James, 3, 92 broadsides, 2, 23, 27, 110, 112, 113, 143, 172, 176, 212, 234, 241, 249, 253 Broca, Paul, 87 Brogan, John, father, 168–170, 272, 273 Brogan, John, son, 19–20, 22, 169, 170, 273 Brogan, Mrs., 168–169, 273 Brown, Agnes, 139–141 Brown, James, 199–201 Brown, Janet, 23, 100–103, 107, 110– 112, 116, 118–120, 122, 125, 139, 273 Brown, William, 208–209, 275 Buchanan, Robert, 2, 6, 106, 108–111, 214, 277n Buckland, William, 286n Burgh Court, 128 Burke and Hare, 6, 278 Burke, Constantine, 67, 100–104, 125, 189, 210, 232, 271, 273 Burke, Edmund, 184 Burke, Elizabeth, 67, 102–104, 273 Burke, Margaret, 60, 64 Burke, Richard, 102, 104, 189, 273 320 Index Burke, William: confessions, 24, 52–54, 56–58, 60, 77–78, 100–102, 104–105, 110, 120, 126, 147, 149, 181, 233–236, 240, 250–251, 284n, 289n; dissection, 242–244; execution, 212, 230, 240, 241, 243–242, 253; ground plan of residence, 14; phrenological analysis of, 178–185; print representing, 59; trial, 9, 22–24, 41, 43, 212, 215, 220, 223–230, 233, 236, 238, 241, 259, 263 Burke, William, son of Constantine Burke, 102, 104, 189, 273 burkers, London, 260–261, 268 burking, 1, 24, 54–55, 75, 77, 80, 111, 242, 253, 261, 298n Burnett, John, 46, 273, 283n Calder, Ann, 141–142, 145 Caledonian Theater, 140 Calton Hill, 253 Cameron, George, 43–44, 273 Campbell, Alexander, 204, 206 Campbell, Archibald, 203 Campbell, George Stewart, 44, 156, 272 Campbell, Madgy. See Docherty, Margaret Campbell, Margaret. See Docherty, Margaret Campbell, Michael, 9, 13 Campbell, Mrs., 204–205 Campbell, Patrick, 202 Campbell, William, 137 Cancer Hospital, 245, 268 Canongate, 100–105, 119–120, 139, 271, 273 Canonmills, 131 caricatures, 2 Carnegie Street, 273 Carubber’s Close, 32, 273 Castle Bank, 146 Castle Hill, 139 Catholic State Waggon, 256 Chalmers, Thomas, 70 Chambers, Robert, 108–109 Charlotte Square, 12 Christison, Robert, 30, 37, 194–199, 201, 206, 211, 216–218, 243, 275, 297n Clark, John, 103 Clark, Mrs., 103, 125 Clerk Street, 121, 253 Cloquet, Hippolyte, 94 Cobbett, William, 35–37, 39 Cockburn, Henry, 24, 51, 55, 60, 65, 220–223, 226–229, 231, 237, 240, 274, 281n Coghill, Jean, 103, 119, 273 Coleman, Margaret. See Burke, Margaret College Wynd, 190 Collins, Wilkie, 6 Colston, James, 266 Combe, George, 174–185, 242, 296n Conway, Ann, 14–17, 19, 273 Cooke, Alistair, 278n Cooper, Sir Astley, 258, 261 corpus delicti, 9 Corson, John, 131 Court of Cacus, 4–6, 107, 114, 264–265, 268 Cowan, William, 114 Cowgate, 10, 12–13, 19, 32, 67, 75, 141, 189 Cowie, George, 3, 111, 256 criminal officer, 20, 130 Crown Office, 22–23, 119, 128–130, 143, 233, 235, 274, 280n, 282n Cuvier, Georges, 80, 90–92 Daft Jamie. See Wilson, James Dalton, Timothy, 7 Darwin, Charles, 5, 92, 268 Dead Body Bill, 39. See Anatomy Act Deuchar, Alexander, 116 Dewar, James, 221–223 Dickens, Charles, 3, 127, 137, 145, 256 Dieterle, William, 6 dissection, by students, 30–31, 33, 36...