Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
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This story of a pioneering surgeon and his world is a terrific historical narrative and evocation of a time when surgeons and body snatchers colluded and conspired as this was the only way surgeons could get anatomical experience.
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