On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1795
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Credit: On the absolute necessity of encouraging, instead of preventing or embarrassing the study of anatomy : with a plan to prevent violating the dormitories of the defunct : addressed to the legislature of Great Britain / by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thirdly. All condemned criminalsj aftqr execution, fhould be delivered to an academy of anatomy, for the fole purpofe of inftrudting fludents. Fourthly. The phylicians and furgeons of public charities fhould have an unlimited power to in- fpeft dead bodies, and be obliged to publilh their obfervations, or tranfmit the fame to the academy of anatomy. Public expence fliould be convertecj into public benefit. Fifthly. It is not uncommon forperfons of rank to have their neareft relations and friends opened to in- fpeA tiie caufes of death, and to afcertain, whether in life, more might have been done in the attempts to cure, as likewife for the purpofe of embalming the body. If fuch rational inquiries, and the prac- tice of embalming, were more univerfal, they would tend gi-eatly to promote the future welfare of fo- ciety. Such examples would be more generally followed, if they became more frequent; and the horrors expreffed by the ignorant, or timid, would daily diminifh, Sixthly. The academy of anatomy fhould be de- frayed at the public cofl, in which cafe the flu- dents fhould be exempt from all expence; if not, the emoluments arifmg from pupils fhould be ap- propriated to that purpofe. Seventhly, As it has been found, by long expe- rience, that corporate bodies form individual cabals, and often deftroy the laudable intentions of their original inflitutions, by purfuing private interefl, inftead of public benefit ; the plan for condu6ling the