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Old 5th September 2009, 12:59 AM   #7
Jim McDougall
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Originally Posted by pallas
in the 1860s-1880s there where craftsman in ohio who made "grave torpedos" for sale to people who wanted to avert grave robbers from digging up their reecently buried dead to sell as cadavers to medical schools......one such device was recently profiled on another episode of "history detectives" on PBS......
Thank you so much Pallas!! I was afraid this thread had, uh, ...died

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Jim
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