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Medical Interest: Knox, Robert, Man: His Structure & Physiology, Popularly Explained and...
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Medical Interest: Knox, Robert, Man: His Structure & Physiology, Popularly Explained and Demonstrated, with Eight Moveable Dissected Coloured Plates, and Five Woodcuts, second edition with an appendix, decorative full cloth, London: H. Bailliere, 219 Regent Street and 290, Broadway, New York, 1858
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Note: Robert Knox (1791-1862), one of the best teachers of anatomy in Edinburgh, was unable to obtain a sufficient supply of cadavers by legal means. Like many anatomists, he had to resort to resurrectionists to supplement the relatively small legal supply of bodies of executed criminals. As gruesome as the grave-robbing business was, it was not aggressively prosecuted by the authorities. However, Knox crossed over the boundary of tolerable behaviour when he became, knowingly or not, the primary customer of the murderers, Burke and Hare. Though he was not personally prosecuted, Knox found his reputation and his teaching career destroyed after their conviction in 1829. For the rest of his life Knox supported himself through medical journalism, lectures, and various publications, including Great Artists and Great Anatomists (1852) and A Manual of Artistic Anatomy (1852). He also published works on anthropology and fishing. It was said that the books on fishing had the most commercial success. The poet Dylan Thomas wrote a screenplay about Knox and the trade in dead bodies. This was adapted and produced as the film, The Doctor and the Devils, in 1985.
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