The Untold Tale of Morgan Berkeley

Morgan Berkeley, surgeon and anatomist in 1829 feels he is on his way to eternal greatness. He believes his life's worth is having his photo on the wall of the hospital and making a discovery in the field of anatomy. But when a much faster (in a time before anesthetics where speed was the primary skill) and much younger surgeon moves into his hospital, the fear begins to seep into his mind. The fear that he'll be forgotten in time. He let's the fear take over as he attempts to improve his speed whilst performing on corpses. But his rage blinds him and he accidentally cuts himself -- a tiny yet fatal cut. Instead of saving his life by removing the limb and stopping the disease spreading across his body, he chooses to hide it. Thus, bringing the timeline for his quest for glory up sooner. But his illness quickly affects his mind. He becomes dazed and hallucinates. So much so that he loses his job as a surgeon, and thus must focus on glory in anatomy. But even this is becoming more difficult as he needs money for the subjects to work on. And the gravediggers don't care about his money woes. He opts to steal them himself, which clashes with the rules of the gravediggers. They're a gang of thugs and thieves. They've created a territory for themselves and they don't care who he was, they will find him and punish him. Berkeley runs. He flees. He escapes. But his illness is too great and they are too much for him. They threaten him at a dead end. Saying they will use his body like he has used so many unearthed subjects prior. Berkeley decides he'd rather plunge into the rocky Thames, ruining his body, but sending him into eternal rest.