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lgsinBodies for Dissection.In a free talk with a reporter of theI Lewiston (Me.) Jvin'iial, a prominent° | physician and surgeon said: “The law ofthe State provides that eacli medical student before he receives his degree of M !., shall dissect. Another law of themsState provides that the body of no personI shall bo given up for dissection unless it | be the body of a criminal, who lias suffered death by hanging; and inease, even if a desire is expressed by the lrt, . condemned man or his friends, that liisat* j bo*ly be buried, his body cannot l»e claimed for the dissecting table. Theiiji11jHi, | last straw the Legislature piled on was when it abolished capital punishment, and made it absolutely impossible for us to get bodies for dissection in a legal way. The laws, as they now stand, enerorvtiicct(1cKntcourage body-snatching- No man canbecome a practicing physician and *ur- , h peon until he has dissected, and the laws wsIabsolutely prohibit our getting bouies in a legal wav. We can't legally bring pbodies into the State from other States, vt*1 * in .,,i* as their laws prohibit it. Of course, we Jmust have bodies. We must rely on the generosity of friends in New iiwho will send us bodies, and run hk.•yofu!the risk of getting caught and paying r;ig, the penalty of the law. I can’t tell how |»lt;reirmany bodies are list'd in Maine for dis- tlsection in the course of a Year. The tiBowdoin seliool probably uses twenty- e: 1?t live bodies a vear: the Portland school of11 ought to use about ten bodies; two yearsago. when our Lewiston school was in cnI1 operation we used ten bodies a year. \ s,;' Then manv physicians, who have a go»d ai .1. , . . J F • V , V?.itiilt;leal of practice. use one or two bodies a venr. We’ve gut to have bodies \\ heni a physician comes upon a rare disease, an he’s obliged to post himself on a dead miin order to save a live one. The all price of a body depends upon where yon dlniv it. To get a body here costs us (;ayiti-isif about -*?3d. Von bnv them in New York ;Sf f 1h _- % *litYi*ttfor So apiece, ciation is taking steps in the matter andtrying to make a way to secure bodies illegally. Again, people don't consider j «the risks their doctors run iu lifting j bn themselves for work. Every man who ! cm works over bodies runs the risk of being attt*tpoisoned from the decaying flesh. Ir. 'V1 Gareelon once came near death from this A cause. I was once sick six weeks from topoisoned from a body, and au t!*1 Auburn physician has suffered in the ‘same way. Bowdoin College Has paid wuthe price of three of its professors to tincause of uitdical science. No less than 1 ^that number have died from poisonous exhalations from corpses upon the operating table. I would rather have old bod-I ies than new ones. Bodies two or three!i f k old are lust for tlisKortion.”intiartroionotr
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Canyon City Grant County news
Canyon City, Oregon, US
Sat, Sep 11, 1880
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