Robert Knox (surgeon)
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Robert Knox was a Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually partnered with anatomist and former teac
Robert Knox, c. 1830
Bill advertising Knox's anatomy lectures in 1828
A modern depiction of body snatchers at work
A caricature of Dr. Knox, depicting him as a demon harvesting bodies
Charles Bell
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Sir Charles Bell was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. Bell discovered the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spina
The Maniac by Charles Bell (1806)
Opisthotonus (Tetanus) by Charles Bell (1809)
Plate 10 from "Anatomy of the Brain Explained in a Series of Engravings" Image credited to Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.