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Mr. Warburton's Anatomy bill, thoughts on its mischievous tendency
Mr Warburton's Anatomy bill thoughts on its mischievous tendency Author:William Roberts Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the times. The separation has been making such alarming progress, that unless a very great change comes over the spirit of Legislation, the gulf, which is wid... more »ening every day, will soon become impassable. Should the Legislature be disposed to retrace its steps, with regard to the Anatomy Bill of 1832, the discovery of an Antiseptic Process will be one of the points which must engage its attention; and on the supposition that no satisfactory mode of preventing the decomposition of human bodies has yet been found out, its discovery should be invited. Let us here endeavour dispassionately to consider what tests any process offered to Parliament and the country should be required to undergo, and with what conditions it should comply. 1.—The process should be such as to deserve the approval of eminent Anatomists; persons of practical experience in the Science. 2.—It should be applicable to summer as well as winter dissection. 3.—It should be capable of preserving human bodies in a natural, moist, and fresh condition for a reasonable time. 4.—It should be cheap, innocuous, and easy of application. Let us next proceed to inquire how far the process, to which it is the object of this appeal to draw public attention, is capable of standing these tests. First, a jury of ten men shall be empanelled, who shall all have been senior teachers of schools. They shall "well and truly try" the case, and be called upon to deliver a unanimous verdict. That the verdict may have the greater weight, the jury shall include the three men who have been the most celebrated and successful teachers of Anatomy in the metropolis, namely, Sir Astley Cooper, Bart, of Guy's Hospital; Mr. J. H. Green, of St. Thomas's Hospital; and SirBenjamin Brodie, of St. George's Hospital; and the list o...« less