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"When I was four or five years old my mother took me to see a dead man." This riveting memory from the authors own life is the start of a historical narrative and an evocation of a world where surgeons and body-snatchers colluded and conspired. It tells the story of Astley Cooper (17681841), a recklessyoung man who became a fiery radical and a brilliantly successful surgeon. He was a student of the famous John Hunter,the teacher of John Keats when the poetwas a medical student, and the first person to describe the function of the middle ear. Surgeon to three successive British kings, when Cooper died it was said that he had "earned more than any surgeon or lawyer that ever lived," and his funeral drew huge crowds. The village where he had spent his last years was hung with black and a statue of him was placed in St. Pauls. But Coopers real passion was he began with student raids on graveyards as well as on neighbors cats and dogs, and ended up running a country-wide network of informers and body snatchers. He would boast to a House of Commons inquiry that there was no man or woman in Britain whose body he could not obtain after their death. Druin Burch became fascinated by Cooper w

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Author

Burch, Druin

Publisher

Random House UK

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701179854

Category

history

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.07 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14