three counties column
Each month Richard Knight will feature an item
from Three Counties Hospital from his collection
of history and memorabilia.
Body Snatching at Three Counties Asylum
ARLESEY
PHARMACY
Opening hours:
While researching funeral arrangements for pauper lunatics at the Three
Counties Asylum we uncovered evidence of patients being sold off after
Monday to Friday
death for the purpose of anatomical dissection and dismemberment at
– 8.45am to 1pm and
the Cambridge anatomical teaching school at Downing Collage, It is hard
2.00pm to 6.15pm
to believe that “Body snatching” could have possibly been going on, but
it was.
Saturday and Sunday
Supplying bodies for anatomical dissection to various establishments
– Closed
was a profi X