Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 21, 1883, Page 2

TRADE IN CORPSES. How the Ditsecting Rooms are Supp ied wiih Subjects, ‘ ) il'he Secret »f the universal success of Brown's Iron Bitters is sim- ply this: It is the best Iron preparation ever made; is = compounded on thoroughly scientific, chemical and !\ medicinal principles, and mer does just what is claimed for oy it—no more and no less, - Five Hundred Bodies Used Yenrly by the Medical Oolleges. The Market Value of a Good Sul ljoct Scenes in the Dissect- ing Room, he The record of burial permits kept by the board of heslth contaius some curious facts. Sensitive pereons would be shocked to read In the colomn hoaded ‘'Place of Burial” after the names of several men and women the entry, “*St. Lonis Medical College,” or some similar legend. Yot those who are posted know that every year at least five hundred untortunates tina their last resting place on the dis- seciing tablo, where they are cut into tragments for the benetit of science. In sober reality there is no reason to object to the practice, It is, perhape, the best use which can be made of what the students call the ‘“‘tiffs.” The law allows it and the sclence of medloine is benefited, But there Is a feeling of reverence connected with ¢+ By thorough and rapid assimilation with the blood, it reaches every part of the system, healing, purifying and strengthening. Com- mencing at the foundation it builds up and restores lost health—in no other way can lasting benefit be obtained. - Amaqy| 79 Dearborn Ave., Chicago, Nov. 7. eat u tried everythingrecommended, have é‘x:mtn.:’ flx;mm t[f.’[l(hnr"\ death which most people can not hysicians, butgot no relief untl D Beowats Tron Bitiess. 11l shake off. Very few can contemplate none of the old troubles, and am a mew man. 1 am_getfing much stronger, and feel fint-rate. Tam a railroad engineer, and now make my trips regularly. 1 can not say to0 much in praise of your wonders ful medicine, D. C. Mack. THIS TRADE IN CORPBES without a shudder, or read without a strange feellvg the entry that some poor unfortunate from the Female Hospital, whot scarcely blossomed into woman- * | hood, had no other pl save the surgeon's table. A Post- Dinspatch reporter, in conversation with a gentleman oconnected with one of the colleges, learned & few facts about the matter which are not gener- aily known, ““There are colleges that I know at which dissecting is carried on every night at present,” ‘‘They are the St lege, corner of Seventh street and Clark avenue; the Missouri Medical Oollege, Twenty-third and Morgan stroots; the College of Physiocians and Sargeons, Eleventh and North Mar- ket streets, the College of Medioal Practitioners, No. 1226 Washington avenue, the Amerioun Ecleotric Col- lege, Eloventh street, between Olive and Locust streets, and the Hahne- maan Homeopathic Oollege, on the corner of Tenth and Carr streets. This 8t, Louis Elestric College, Dr. Field's inatitution, Twelfth street and Chris- ty avenue, wants bodies but cannot get them. Then there may ba one or two scho f midwifery, where one or two ‘stiffs’ are used for the edification of Iady puplls.” %4'“And how many bodies are needed for these places?”’ ““Oh, I should say about 500 in the neason, Lot me see. Now, don't you use m; me, or you'll raise a hornet nest about my ears. I can figare it out iu a minute. A body is given to a quartet of students. KEach clae gets two subjccts a year. There are abont 250 siudenta at the Missouri medical college, 8o that it would take fifty-five corpses to supply them for one round. That would make 110 for the session. On the same basis you can put down the Sv. Louls colloli: at ninety-five bodies, the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons fifty, and ail the oth from Eve to ten each. At the largest estimate, I should say, after this oalonlation, that 400 bodies would be more than enough to supply all that {s wanted, “And where are they to come from?’ 50 | 4iOh, all from the publlo instito, tions. The law, you kaow, dlug',‘ that, they should be glven, and are, P y 'i‘.lu there no body suate’ g golng on?" . “‘Honestly, 7 thiak not. There may ~be some Ilh’;."‘murreufing“ done at mfl" “ cemeteries, like Ploke Hebrew burying ground, b’ if there Is it is on a very of the natars! lawi | sall son!s There Is no necessity for govern the ope: , i, ns ! utrition, and by a caretul appl of , 8 *ste was In former years Ernest fne r.wmln of well-select . | Deygke and others, you will remem- mgl‘,fi,‘sb‘:‘,’w, e anan ! | shde quite businets of it until they many heavy doctors' bilis It iy by the Jud’ were hauled up by the law, Under 900 of yuch articles of diet the statutes now the supply is large enough to make may be graduall b niJ overy BIDY SNATCHING no object. Why, do you know that the deaths at the olty hospital this rnr will average about two a day, and f the colleges got half of them, it would be quite suffizlent, not count. ing the other i Browx’s Irox BITTERS does not contain whiskey or alcohol, and will not blacken the teeth, or cause headache and constipation. It will cure dyspepsia, indi- gestion, heartburn, sleep- lessness, dizziness, nervous debility, weakness, &c. Use only Brown’s Tron Pltters made by Brown Chemical Co., Baltimore, Crossed red lines and trade-mark o wrapper. fl\\{(l\’// RSETS Every Corget is warranted satis- ‘nctory to Jyrsarse in every way, or the money will be retun the porson from whoua it was bough e only Corvet pronounced by our {clans SRR, S RS PRICES, by Mall, Postago Patds Mealth Preserving, ‘I-lb.‘ Belf-Adjustt GRATEFUL-COMFORTING, ~ EPPS'S COGOA. BREAKFAST, ;:z thorough knowl »l “‘Nor brought into the clty?”’ ‘‘No, I've talked this subject over with a couple of demonstrators of anatomy, not many days ago, and I am sure, that except in the rarest in- stances, bodles are neither brought here, nor sent from the city. A few physicians dlllneot in private at their they?” T would not let you publish thelr because, you see, it would in- practice. These men may ocoaslonally get a partioular subject sent to them, generally from Phila- delphia or Chicago, but only in the rareat cases. No, I think the fact is that the trade in foorpses is very dull here, and is coufined altogether to de- liyering them from the public instita- tlons to the colleges,” FHE PRICE OF CORPSES, ““What are they worth?" ‘‘Well, the price varies, like auy other commodity, Usually & class of four, who use the same table, pay about $15 for a subject. Some of them come as low as $6 or $8, and I have known them to run as high as $20. The demonstratur of anatomy, as the£ call him—that is the man who lectures in the dissecting room—gets { | that, and he pays all the expenses of bringing the bodies to the college.” ““And you think the supply is suffi- clent?” *‘Oh, yes, especially since we began to use the ‘pickling’ process.” “‘What in the world do you mean by that!” “Why, you soe, the dissecting sea- son lasts from November to April Now, the colleges are getting bodies SIDE SBPRING ,"!'.I'AO‘IDHIIT—IM PATENT A. J. SIMPSON,. LEADING OARRIAGE FACTORY 1409 and 1411 Dodge Btreet, sog 7-me 6m Omama, Nxs, round, When the oellege Is not in sesslon they are plokled and put away in tanks until they are wanted. They use, generally, wood spirits, spirits, of Interment | especially when he saw that the bodies . | much weight. Mot | thrown, quicklime is put on the top of from ihe institutions all the year ligneous acld and sometimes brine. Ice is aleo used. The boys don’t like this fresh batoh, because they putrify 80 quickly, and all the classes endeavor to hang back until another batch comes Then there is a good deal of cholce about the matter, You would make a good subject because you are not overburdened with adipose tissue. A AT SUBJECT 18 NO GOOD Lean ones are what are sought after, because the tissues and muecles are not covered and bidden with fa A talk with some other gentlemen and with Health Commissioner Francis brought out the same facis, namely, that there was little or no resurrecting done, and, as far as was known, very fow bodies shipped to or from the oity, The reporter, plloted by s frlend who is & medical student, mado a visic'to a coupla of the colleges aud saw for Lim self how the thing is done. The first place called at was the St. Loals medical college. On Seventh street, just back of the college, there {sa very dark alley, and o & little way an entrance, closed by a heavy double door. ‘‘Here's the place they bring iu the stiffs,” sald the student; “in through this door.” At this minute, a vehicle, drawn by one horge, turned into the alley, and the student said: ‘‘Here comes the wsyon now.” It was very dark, but he knew the ontfit because he had seen 1t so many times, The driver atopped, knocked at the door, and soon shoved in two ine coffins, He waa an old, crabbed- ooking fellow, with a roungh beard and a short pipe, and would never be taken for a person of such horrible oc- cupation, “‘Let's go up on the elevator,” sald sge shows that she | the student. “Not mauch,” said the reporter, were being loaded In the same con- trivance. “‘Come on, you fool, it is shorter than going around the front way.” The reporter strenuously objected, and the man who ran the elevator also put his veto on the matter, saying that the contrivance would not hoid so The dissecting rooms at the college are situated in the rear ¢f the build- ing, in two long and narrow rooms, one above the other, The lower one was fitted with low tablos, about ench of which was a crowd of stadents, The room was fall of tobacco smoke and everybody was so busy that the entrance of a stranger was not noticed. Youug fellows were laughing, talking and discussing. Here and there were & knot intensely intereated over a par- ticular ease. THE HARSH NOISE OF THE SAW oould be heard svery now and then, o8 {t grated through the skull of some poor wratch whose braln was wanted for {nspection, There were about ten bodies in this room, aud nearly thirty students at work, Men and women, nome of them old, some young, and many so mutilated that an inexperi- enced eye could not teil anything abont them, lay around on all sides. The students do not seem to heed the surroundings, nor the horrible stench, Most of them uso gowns at the work, which cover theis clothes. The re- porter’s companion laughed at his pale and ghostly countenance, and sald this was nothing, Sometimes there were as many as THE DAT®i BEE | e A LAWYER FOOLED. The Eloquence Which Won an Old Soldier’s Suit. — Brooklyn Fagle, A distinguished company of lawyers sat in the supreme court room recent- ly talklog over old times, Among them was Col, Chatles S, Spencer, He was in his usnal happy vein, and told & new story. ‘I was retained,” he eaid, ‘‘by an ex noldier of the war to suo for the re. | - covery of some §1,800 which he had loaned to a friend, ‘The late Edwin Tames was connsel for the defoudant L went to work zslously for my cli- ent. James cross-examined the plaint. 1ff in his usual forcible wav. *“ ‘You loaned him §1 8007 8 anked, ‘L did, sir,’ was the reply. ‘It was your own money!' Mr. James continnad. ‘"It was, sir,’ my cifent responded. “ ‘When did you lend him the mune{ !" was the next question. ‘*In July, 1866, was the answor, ‘* ‘Where did you get that money, sir?’ Mr. James usked sternly. Me. Jai “¢I earned {t, sir” The words wore said in a meek tone. ‘“‘You earned it, eh? When did you esrn it? asked Mr. James, ‘' ‘During the war, sir,’ was the reply, still in a very hnmble tone. **“You earned 1t duriug the war Pray, what was your occupation dur- ing the war? Mr. James asked. ‘ ‘Fighting, sr,’ the man replied modestly, ‘“ ‘Oh, fighting," Mr. James said, somewhat taken down, and instantly changing his manner, ‘I emiled triumphantly, and even snickered a little. Jsmes was haif mad. Waell, we want to the jury, and I, of course, had tho last to say. I satlod away up to glory. I spoke of the war; of the lives and treasures it . cost us; of the awful battles which de- clded the fate of the Union; of the self-denfal and bravery of our men who left home, and wife, and children, and father, and mother, and everythlag that was dear to them, and went forth to’fight for fireside and freedom, and the eaiva- tion of the nation. I pointed to the plaintiff as ho sat there, still with the same air of humility, and even sad- nese. I sald that was the sort of a man who had fought our battles and saved the flag, and shed his 1ifs blood that we and. our children might enjoy, uncurtalled, the glorious blessinge of freedom wrenched from the hauds of despots by onr sires. T worked up that jury, I can tell you, and the plaintiff himself drew forth an unpre- tentious handkerchief and wiped away atear. Igota verdict for the fall amount, of course. ‘‘As we were quitting the court room, James sai1: ‘Spencer, your war speoch gained you the verdict. If you hadn’t discovered through my cross examination that the man fought in tha”wnr, you would have been beat— ‘My friend,’ I replied, ‘If you had only aeked the man which side he fought on, you might be going home wiéhll ordict. My client was an old rebel, —_— Durkee's Salad Dressing, a ready- made, rich and deltcious dressing for all n[sda of meat, fish or vegetables, TWENTY-FIVE CORPSES IN THE ROOM. The boys sometimen go 80 far as to lunch in the dissecting room, although that performance 1s rare, mes, however, the soalpel would slip and cut s student’s finger, and he would im- mediately begin to suck at It with his power. Clate GE this we Vi ukol;‘u. introduce a virulent poison to #ystem, and the students &Y agaiust them with the utmost At the back of the room was a af. with an opening lesding to a well 11 the cellar. Into this the refuse is 1t and the place is cleaned out once every two or three years. “‘Let's go up to the top room}” sald the student. “Not this evening!” said the re- porter, who was sick and weak enough to take refuge in the old joke, The place is kept as scrupulously clean as possible, yet the neighbors have ob- Jected now and then. Several years 8go a number of colored people made s raid on the bullding, in search of the remalns of a friend who was thought to be there, They got into the bullding and up the stairs leading to the disseoting room, when a student turned out the lights. Conf commenced immediately. A couple ot students, so the story goes, caught up a body, hurled it down stairs upon the invaders and the latter rushed out and ran away as best they could. In several of the colleges THE REMAINS ARE THROWN INTO VATS, Fow people are probably aware that dlnootlng {e going on in such a central nelghborbood as No. 1225 Washing- ton avenue, At this place the refuse and the bones are burned in a large stove, and thus disposed of. There is no smell or d| ght, and the neighbors have never had any cause for complaint. 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