Scot Med J
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Historical Article
"And afterwards your body to be given for public dissection": a history of the murderers dissected in Glasgow and the west of Scotland.
Between 1752 and 1832, the bodies of hanged murderers were dissected or gibbeted. During this period, 38 murderers were executed in the West of Scotland. ⋯ The stories of these murders are recounted. Insight is also given into the attitudes of the public and the anatomists to dissection of executed murderers.
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Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome is an unusual presentation of calf pain to an accident and emergency department. We report the case of a 36-year-old man presenting with left calf pain and investigations confirmed the diagnosis of popliteal artery entrapment syndrome. A&E doctors should consider this diagnosis in their differential diagnoses for calf pain in younger patients particularly when obvious trauma is absent.