Answer to a pamphlet entitled The medical school of Edinburgh.

Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Answer to a pamphlet entitled The medical school of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    % shewn genuine signs of repentance, and I trust are now in eternal happiness. In the next place, our pamphleteer tells us, that the illustrious Dr Pitcairn- first formed a theatre of anatomy in Edinburgh. But our pamphleteer does not seem to be aware (at least wants us to believe so) of the restrictions they were put under ; viz. they were only allowed one body in the Winter Session, and the intestines of that body were to be buried in forty-eight hours, and the rest of the body in ten days at farthest, at their expence; or the Town Council’s grant becomes null and void. And again, our pamphleteer takes little notice of the petition of the surgeons of Edin¬ burgh to the Town Council, about the lifting of the bodies out of the Greyfriar’s church¬ yard, and of their abhorrence of this crime, and assuring the Council, that if any of . their body be detected stealing bodies from the grave, they shall be expelled their socie- »