As a postscript to the above, there is now a posh hotel within a very short distance of the old Edinburgh Med School site: this transformed building one used to be a "lunatic asylum", and later became The Bedlam Theatre, which some people may remember from Edinburgh Fringe shows.
Now, as The Hotel du Vin, it was the venue for a recent reunion dinner with a number of medical colleagues. We were in a private room - The Burke and Hare Room, which is appropriately adorned with quite macabre paintings of anatomical specimens, bodies, body-snatchers at work, etc. It didn't put us off our dinner though! And, of course, I did have to sing the above song before we departed.