Tag: Harvard medical school and the body snatchers
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Harvard medical school and the body snatchers
Kevin R. Loughlin Boston, Massachusetts, USA Figure 1: Woodcut illustration from Fasciculus medicinae (1491) depicting a Lector, Ostensor, and Sector during a dissection Their silhouettes surely would have been seen against the backdrop of a moonlit night in 1796 as they entered the North Burying Ground in Boston. Their hearts were likely filled with…