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Doctor's Riot
Title: Doctor's Riot
Category: History
Details: Words: 1251 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Doctor's Riot
In former times “body-snatching”, or digging up bodies for dissections was much more heard of than at present. The fear if it was so great, that often, in the neighborhood where medical students were pursuing their studies, persons who lost friends and family members would have a watch kept over their graves for several nights, to prevent them from being dug up. Neither the high social position nor sex of the dead provided a barrier …showed first 75 words of 1251 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1251 total…for the Purpose of Dissection, Dead Bodies Interred in Cemeteries or Burial Places.8” Corpses of executed murderers, arsonists, and burglars were allowed to be experimented on by the doctors but the respectable dead must be left alone. And in 1791, the fully renovated New York Hospital was opened with sixteen patients. However, many were still paranoid from the incident and referred to the hospital as a “chamber of horror” as they kindly settle on bogus remedies.
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