File:Edinburgh Medical School building, Teviot Place.jpg
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The first faculty of medicine at a British university was founded in Edinburgh in 1726. This building, designed by Sir R Rowand Anderson in the style of a Venetian Renaissance palace was completed in 1888. An intended campanile at the east end, based on St. Mark's in Venice, never materialised. The building houses an Anatomy Museum, among whose grislier exhibits is the skeleton of William Burke, displayed publicly as an explicit consequence of the sentence passed on him for his part in the so-called "West Port murders" of the early 1820s. He and his accomplice, William Hare, are known to have murdered at least 16 victims before their apprehension. The strength of public indignation aroused by the murders and directed against the medical profession gave added impetus to the passing of the 1832 Anatomy Act which increased the legal supply of corpses to the medical schools.
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| current | 16:26, 5 January 2017 | | 2,560 × 1,920 (2.07 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | The first faculty of medicine at a British university was founded in Edinburgh in 1726. This building, designed by Sir R Rowand Anderson in the style of a Venetian Renaissance palace was completed in 1888. An intended campanile at the east end, based on St. Mark's in Venice, never materialised. The building houses an Anatomy Museum, among whose grislier exhibits is the skeleton of William Burke, displayed publicly as an explicit consequence of the sentence passed on him for his part in the so-called "West Port murders" of the early 1820s. He and his accomplice, William Hare, are known to have murdered at least 16 victims before their apprehension. The strength of public indignation aroused by the murders and directed against the medical profession gave added impetus to the passing of the 1832 Anatomy Act which increased the legal supply of corpses to the medical schools. |
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