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A wonderful description from my History magazine of an 18th century medical student in London writing to his sister about the place he has found....
'My room has two beds in it and in point of situation is not the most pleasant in the world. The Dissecting Room with half-a-dozen dead bodies in it is immediately above and that in which Mr.Hunter makes preparations for them is the next adjoining to it,so that you may conceive it to be a little perfumed. There is a dead carcase just at this moment rumbling up the stairs and the Resurrection Men swearing most terribly. I am informed that this will be the case most mornings about four o'clock throughout the winter. There is something horrible in it at first, but I am now become reconciled to it..'
'My room has two beds in it and in point of situation is not the most pleasant in the world. The Dissecting Room with half-a-dozen dead bodies in it is immediately above and that in which Mr.Hunter makes preparations for them is the next adjoining to it,so that you may conceive it to be a little perfumed. There is a dead carcase just at this moment rumbling up the stairs and the Resurrection Men swearing most terribly. I am informed that this will be the case most mornings about four o'clock throughout the winter. There is something horrible in it at first, but I am now become reconciled to it..'
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