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"Which is where the bodies come in," said Elizabeth, with more relish than they’d have expected "He started off soh," said Mr Blake

"But was run out of town after he was caught grave robbing"

"It wasn’t like it is today," said Mr Blake "He was a doctor and they needed bodies for dissection It was coraves"

"But probably not co theh

Mr Blake paused "That is, perhaps, true," he conceded "Still, there was never any question of personal gain He never sold them, only used the corpses to teach his students, ot caught?" É up a pronized by one of the students"

Now everyone grimaced

"So he ca here," said Mr Blake "He also opened a mental hospital just outside the city He was a visionary, you know This was at a tied were tossed into places worse than prisons, locked up for life"

"Bedlalas was considered e because he believed the mentally ill should be treated with respect His hospital helped hundreds, maybe thousands, of people People no one else wanted"

"Must have been an extraordinary man," said Émile

"He was, by most accounts," said Mr Blake, "a antwith the poor and displaced Then he showed ree, isn’t it?"

Ga, and so difficult How the same person could be both kind and cruel, coetting to know the people than the evidence People ere contrary and contradictory, and who often didn’t even know themselves

"But where do the mummies come in?" asked Éraves in and around Quebec City," said Elizabeth "Again, just for teaching He see up the premier minister or any archbishops but his fascination with bodies does see"