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Anatomy and Physiology Timeline

300 B.C.

In Alexandrian Egypt, King Ptolemy I was the first leader to deem it okay for medical types to cut open the dead for the purpose of figuring out how bodies work.

17th century

April 15, 1452

William Harvey discovered the human circulatory system.

Leonardo Da Vinci was the originator of the cross sectional anatomy. The most admired work by him (in anatomy) was the collection of drawings that he had created (over a total of 500 diagrams).

1700s

Student's tuition at certain Scottish schools could be paid in corpses rather than cash.

2002

A student at Kandahar Medical College dug up the bones of his beloved grandmother and shared them with his classmates.

1828

Demands of London's anatomy schools were such that full time and part time body snatchers were kept busy. Pay worked out to about $1,000/year

Works Cited

1831

In Rochester, New York you could sell your son's amputated limbs for beer money (a leg was 37.5 cents)

Kalee. "Important People in the History of Anatomy Timeline."

Timetoast. Timetoast Timeline, 2007-2016. Web. 31 Aug.

2016.

Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.

New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. Print.

16th century to 1836

1822

This was the passage of the Anatomy Act. Before that, the only cadavers legally available for dissection in Britain were those of executed murderers.

Hector Berlioz wrote in his Memoirs shedding considerable light on his decision to pursue music rather than medicine.

January 1, 1825

Henry Gray, author of Anatomy of the Human Body, and Gray's Anatomy has become a standard for students of medicine and artists.

1752

In Britain, dissection as a sentencing option for murderers was mandated as an alternative to postmortem gibbeting.

1818

October 17, 1784

Thomas Sewell was convicted of digging up the corpse of a young Ipswich, Massachusetts, woman for the purposes of dissection

Johann Friedrich Meckel was a Professor of pathology, anatomy, and surgery at a University. He studied birth defects and abnormalities that occur in embryonic development.

By Meagan Harrington and Katie Gallegos

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