| Description Of Item | Colour illustration of a man at a desk writing and colour illustration of three men standing alongside a skeleton.
Quotes from the Caledonian Mercury 1828-1829 considering the origins of the bodies, as well as the possibility of other doctors having received bodies from resurrectionists.
Text reads ‘Dedicated to Colonel Cloud, Younger of Coalpepper Castle, and, in reversion, deputy Adjt Gen to the emperor of Austria.’
Relates to William Burke and William Hare.
No V, Noxiana, RH Nimmo’s, Lithog Edinburgh.
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