Papers relative to the question of providing adequate means for the study of anatomy.

  • Ferguson, Robert, 1799-1865.
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Papers relative to the question of providing adequate means for the study of anatomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    receiving any such dead body, before it be lawful to deliver to him the same, shall in each case give to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Boston, or to the Selectmen of any town of this com- monwealth, as each case may require, good and sufficient bond or bonds, that each body by him so received shall be used only for the promotion of anatomical science; that it shall be used for such purposes only in this commonwealth, and so as in no event to out- rage the public feeling; and that, after having been so used, the remains thereof shall be decently inhumed. Sect. 4. Be it further enacted. That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for any physician duly licensed ac- cording to the laws of this commonwealth, or for any medical student under the authority of any such physician, to have in his possession, to use and employ human dead bodies, or the parts there- of, for purposes of anatomical inquiry- or instruction. Sect. 5. Be it further enacted. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to give to the Board of Health, Overseers of the Poor, or Selectmen of any town in this commonwealth, or to the Directors of the House of Industry, Overseers of the Poor, or Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Boston, in said commonwealth, any power to license the digging up of any dead human body, or the remains thereof, other than was possessed by them before the passing of this Act, or is given them by the third section of this Act. Sect. 6. Be it further enacted. That the Act passed March 2, 1815, entitled “An Act to protect the Sepulchres of the Dead,” and also all other Acts, or parts of Acts, contravening the provi- sions of this Act, be, and the same hereby are repealed. House of Representatives, Feb. 11, 1831. Read three times, and passed, to be engrossed. Sent up for concurrence, P. W. \VA11 REN, Clerk. 4.