Scene of the Crime: The University of Edinburgh's Medical School and Museum

The University of Edinburgh's Medical School was founded more than 350 years ago. Today visitors can take a stroll through the same building where Dr. Robert Knox dissected the unwitting murder victims of William Burke and William Hare.

For those with a strong stomach - and a twisted sense of poetic justice - you can also see the skeleton of graverobber-turned-serial- killer, William Burke, whose body was donated to the University Medical School for "useful dissection" after he was found guilty of murder and executed in January, 1829.

MMJ, October 1999

Links:

The Edinburgh Medical School, History of

The Edinburgh Medical School's Graduate School of Life Sciences

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