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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

MASSACHUSETTS. GENERAL COURT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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1831

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Report of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives ... legalizing the study of anatomy.

MASSACHUSETTS. GENERAL COURT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

This was the first law passed in the United States consigning the bodies of those who died in workhouses, hospitals, and similar institutions, the bodies of whom were "unclaimed," to medical schools for dissection. "S…