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Known as the father of anatomy, he was the first person to dissect cadavers. He was also known for dissecting criminals.(Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2, pg 40) It is also said he may of dissected people alive. (Credited in sources)
King Ptolemy I was the first king to deem it okay for scientist to cut open human bodies to learn more about them. This as part due to Eygpt's long history of mummification (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2 pg 40)
Known as the father of chinese medicine, Huang Ti wrote an authoritative medical and anatomical text. (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2)
Huang Ti Figured out that the heart is circulated by blood, and that the blood-flow in a human never ever stops, (until dead), 4000 years before William Harvey became famous for it. (Mary Roach, Stiff, chapter 2, page 53)
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in 1632 a doctor held his second public dissection, and later on this public and well known dissection became a painting. (Cited in Sources)
Human Dissection was well known during the Renaissance Era, but many would turn their backs as they found it disgusting. (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter two, page 54)
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The 18th-19th century was filled with the Tradition of using executed criminals for dissections (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2, page 40)
Tuition in some Scottish schools could be payed with corpses. (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2, page 40)
the 19th century was full of beliefs and even more dissections starting to happen and become more public.
People seemed to believe that burial culminated in a fate less ghastly then dissection.
Journal entries were made of Grave Digger
George Washington Medical School was convinced of digging up and dissecting the body of a young women
Saartje Baartman (who died in 1815) was well regarded for displaying sex parts, and when she died her body was plaster cast, but she is regarded as a national hero.
Many Dissections!
The demands of London's anatomy schools were such that 10 body snatchers and 200 or so part timers were kept busy throughout the dissecting session (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2, page 44)
January 29th, 1829 William Burke was hung and was then his head was later dissected, this event was public and 25000 people attended. (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2, page 51)
Murders and Transplants oh my!
The first heart transplant ever was saw, and due to this the need for human organs became evident, the price of funerals increased, so people would find it better to donate to science then pay for a funeral. (Mary Roach, Stiff, Chapter 2, Page 56-57)
There was an attempt to murder Oscar Rafael Hermandez to sell his body to medical school but it failed.
The Stiff Novel, by Mary Roach, pages 37-61, chapter 2
Quigley, C. (2012). Top 10 Astonishing Things You Didn’t Know About Human Dissection. Toptenz.net. Retrieved 30 August 2019, from https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-astonishing-things-you-didnt-know-about-human-dissection.php