{"product_id":"2940013668218","title":"The Resurrectionist \u0026 The Spectre-Smitten","description":"My gentle reader--start not at learning that I have been, in my time, a\u003cbr\u003eresurrectionist! Let not this appalling word, this humiliating\u003cbr\u003econfession, conjure up in your fancy a throng of vampire-like images and\u003cbr\u003eassociatiors, or earn your \"Physician's\" dismissal from your hearts and\u003cbr\u003ehearths. It is your own groundless fears, my fair trembler!--your own\u003cbr\u003esuperstitious prejudices--that have driven me, and will drive many\u003cbr\u003eothers of my brethern, to such dreadful doings as those hereafter\u003cbr\u003edetailed. Come, come--let us have one word of reason between us on the\u003cbr\u003eabstract question--and then for my tale. You expect us to cure you of\u003cbr\u003edisease, and yet deny us the only means of learning _how_! You would\u003cbr\u003ehave us bring you the ore of skill and experience, yet forbid us to\u003cbr\u003ebreak the soil or sink a shaft! Is this fair, _fair_ reader? Is this\u003cbr\u003ereasonable?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat I am now going to describe was my first and last exploit in the way\u003cbr\u003eof body-stealing. It was a grotesque if not a ludicrous scene, and\u003cbr\u003eoccurred during the period of my \"walking the hospitals,\" as it is\u003cbr\u003ecalled, which occupied the two seasons immediately after my leaving\u003cbr\u003eCambridge. A young and rather interesting female was admitted a patient\u003cbr\u003eat the hospital I attended; her case baffled all our skill, and her\u003cbr\u003esymptoms even defied diagnosis. _Now_, it seemed an enlargement of the\u003cbr\u003eheart--now, an ossification--then this, that, and the other; and at last\u003cbr\u003eit was plain we knew nothing at all about the matter--no, not even\u003cbr\u003ewhether her disorder was organic or functional, primary or\u003cbr\u003esymptomatic--or whether it _was_ really the heart that was at fault. She\u003cbr\u003ereceived no benefit at all under the fluctuating schemes of treatment we\u003cbr\u003epursued, and at length fell into dying circumstances. As soon as her\u003cbr\u003efriends were apprised of her situation, and had an inkling of our\u003cbr\u003eintention to open the body, they insisted on removing her immediately\u003cbr\u003efrom the hospital, that she might \"die at home.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn vain did Sir ---- and his dressers expostulate vehemently with them,\u003cbr\u003eand represent, in exaggerated terms, the imminent peril attending such a\u003cbr\u003estep. Her two brothers avowed their apprehension of our designs, and\u003cbr\u003ewere inflexible in exercising their right of removing their sister. I\u003cbr\u003eused all my rhetoric on the occasion, but in vain; and at last said to\u003cbr\u003ethe young men, \"Well, if you are afraid only of our _dissecting_ her, we\u003cbr\u003ecan get hold of her, if we are so disposed, as easily if she die with\u003cbr\u003eyou as with us.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well--we'll _troy_ that, measter,\" replied the elder, while his\u003cbr\u003eHerculean fist oscillated somewhat significantly before my eyes. The\u003cbr\u003epoor girl was removed accordingly to her father's house, which was at a\u003cbr\u003ecertain village about five miles from London, and survived her arrival\u003cbr\u003escarcely ten minutes! We soon contrived to receive intelligence of the\u003cbr\u003eevent; and as I and Sir ----'s two dressers had taken great interest in\u003cbr\u003ethe case throughout, and felt intense curiosity about the real nature of\u003cbr\u003ethe disease, we met together and entered into a solemn compact, that,\u003cbr\u003ecome what might, we would have her body out of the ground. A trusty spy\u003cbr\u003einformed us of the time and exact place of the girl's burial; and on\u003cbr\u003eexpressing to Sir ---- our determination about the matter, he patted me\u003cbr\u003eon the back, saying, \"Ah, my fine fellow!--IF you have SPIRIT\u003cbr\u003eenough--dangerous,\" etc., etc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWas it not skilfully said? The baronet further told us, he felt himself\u003cbr\u003eso curious about the matter that if fifty pounds would be of use to us\u003cbr\u003ein furthering our purpose, they were at our service. It needed not this,\u003cbr\u003enor a glance at the _éclat_ with which the successful issue of\u003cbr\u003ethe affair would be attended among our fellow-students, to spur our\u003cbr\u003eresolves.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177809920240,"sku":"2940013668218","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013668218_p0.jpg?v=1763584280","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013668218","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}