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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.
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).
Student's tuition at certain Scottish schools could be paid in corpses rather than cash.
A student at Kandahar Medical College dug up the bones of his beloved grandmother and shared them with his classmates.
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
In Rochester, New York you could sell your son's amputated limbs for beer money (a leg was 37.5 cents)
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Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. Print.
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.
Henry Gray, author of Anatomy of the Human Body, and Gray's Anatomy has become a standard for students of medicine and artists.
In Britain, dissection as a sentencing option for murderers was mandated as an alternative to postmortem gibbeting.
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.