The Admirable Teachings Of Burke & Hare

Exhume to investigate

Reflect on corpse criteria

The perfect specimen, suitably fresh

Untouched by disfiguring trauma

The grave robbing business

A lucrative offence

Appropriate subjects in shortage

Mucopurulent stiffs refused

Gaseous corpses discharging pus

Unacceptable for medical purpose

Create your own cadaver

Deliver the recently dead

Defile and disinter the freshly deceased

Inadequate to meet the growing needs

Furtively smother the sacrificial mark

A fine cadaver to pride the anatomy slab

A lethal business venture

Anatomical counterfeiting

A murderous vocation

Cadavers fermented to gunk

Entirely inappropriate

likewise the crushed and gored remains

of bloody industrial mishaps

Efficient body snatchers

Reap the harvest of death’s mailing

Defile and disinter the freshly deceased

Inadequate to meet the growing needs

Furtively smother the sacrificial mark

A fine cadaver to pride the anatomy slab