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By Michael Sappol. 430 pp., illustrated. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2002. $35. ISBN 0-691-05925-X.

"Anatomy is the charm," observed Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith, professor of anatomy at the Berkshire Medical Institution in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1825 Smith proposed to Harvard anatomist John Collin Warren that together they petition Massachusetts legislators for a law that would give medical anatomists access to the bodies of those unfortunate enough to die in public almshouses and state prisons. The Massachusetts legislature passed an anatomy act in 1831, but the law aimed at ending the "resurrection" of cadavers did not resolve the persistent shortage of material for anatomical dissection faced by 19th-century medical educators and their students. In this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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