To guard against bodysnatchers, people took a number of measures, including inventing and patenting special coffins and burial devices.
REVIEW: SPEAKERS OF THE DEAD by J. Aaron Sanders
In the muddy, soot-blackened days of early Manhattan, a tiny cabal of scientists pushes for the advancement of medicine and anatomical understanding. A smaller group runs a dangerous underground business in procuring dead bodies. And the general public is disgusted by them all. Walt Whitman, cub reporter for the Aurora newspaper is both friend to the…