In the Flesh

12/03/20 • 30 min

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The story about how stolen corpses played a crucial role in the development of Western medicine -- and how one man made a living at the center of the trade.

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American Shadows - In the Flesh

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You're listening to American Shadows, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky. In the early eighteen hundreds, the port city of Baltimore had a problem. Early American industrialization, along with its prominent place on the Atlantic Ocean, had helped the city swell to a population of over forty thou Along with the overcrowding and lack of public sewers came serious health issues. Yellow fever, dysentery, typhus, smallpox