Henderson, D., Collard, M. and Johnston, D. A. (1996). Archaeological evidence for 18th-century medical practice in the Old Town of Edinburgh: excavations at 13 Infirmary Street and Surgeons' Square.. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 126. Vol 126(2), pp. 929-941.
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Archaeological evidence for 18th-century medical practice in the Old Town of Edinburgh: excavations at 13 Infirmary Street and Surgeons' Square. | |||||||
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 126 | |||||||
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland | |||||||
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126 (2) | |||||||
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929 - 941 | |||||||
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Articulated human skeletons and disarticulated bones recovered in 1993 from excavations in the area of the former Lady Yester's Kirkyard showed clear evidence of post-mortem dissection. They are identified as the `unclaimed' dead buried by the Royal Infirmary in the second half of the eighteenth century. There was evidence for post-mortem tooth removal from all the dentitions recovered during the excavation, probably for the manufacture of sets of false teeth. A further assemblage of human bones, found in 1988 adjacent to eighteenth/nineteenth-century anatomy schools formed part of a teaching collection from the schools. | |||||||
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1996 | |||||||
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20 Jan 2002 |