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The Court of Cacus

The Court of Cacus

by Alexander Leighton

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Author
Leighton, Alexander, 1800-1874
Title
The Court of Cacus; Or, The Story of Burke and Hare
Credits
E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
Language
English
LoC Class
RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Subject
Hare, William, 1792?-1870?
Category
Text
eBook-No.
41642
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41642
Release Date
December 17, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE COURT OF CACUS;
  2. 2.PREFACE.
  3. 3.CONTENTS.
  4. 4.First Appearance in Surgeon’s Square.
  5. 5.Intercalary.
  6. 6.The Young Amateurs
  7. 7.The Regular Staff.
  8. 8.Sympathising Sextons, Doctors, and Relatives.
  9. 9.Preying on each other
  10. 10.Resumption of the Great Drama.
  11. 11.The Quaternion.
  12. 12.The Opening of the Court—The Old Woman of Gilmerton. [5]
  13. 13.The Mother and Daughter.
  14. 14.The Grandmother and the Dumb Boy.
  15. 15.The Stray Waifs
  16. 16.The Relative.
  17. 17.The Study for the Artist.
  18. 18.Daft Jamie.
  19. 19.The Brisk Little Old Woman.
  20. 20.The Discovery.
  21. 21.The Complicity of the Doctors.
  22. 22.The Trial.
  23. 23.The Jail.
  24. 24.Vejove.
  25. 25.The Exhibition.
  26. 26.The Prosecution against Hare.
  27. 27.The Hunt Out.
  28. 28.The Final Cause.

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