The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-21
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A New York reporter has recently taken
fs~ ,stes in?1ffAls collegea $500 -
Women ding sssIssiVs sff6 or ese toslaMs.s &
prescribing for ''all the ills tia, flesh is heir
ing rs al af Z siass & s d''s''
In the evening the medical students-who
are earnest enough to seek by hard work TO
obtain knsvled4e Of their psefos9oa--p
1e0 3 IN disoeeting rooms, 0 tAAk t1siA
SststveM heated in ifferSAts tesA Mte
city The largest and finest OF them is To-
Gated in the upper part Of college building,
where twenty-five or thirty tables are ranged
between half . dozen roes Jof brigAg gas
or more closets are numbered and set apart
for the use of students, who change their
clothing whenever they engage in the work
of dissection. The tables are about six feet
long BY eighKen inches vide, and thrsa Ia
ax inches high, one end being Inclined FOR
drainage purposes. Under direction of the
college faculty, Subjects - .. ,,dsad bodies
are procured and brought to this room,
which, although thoroughly ventilated, smells
very much hksa slsughterhouse, ~hio1 II
resembles in some respects. Headless, leg
less and arnless bodies occupy some Of the
tables. On others, untouched bodies await
appertions il according 10 demand: one stu>
dent asking for a head and neck, another
taking the trunk; one gets an arm or leg; in
short, that body is divided according to the
ivclinahAps or dSsin OF Ne &QArerR dist
turs 10 parsus theF inve& igaub y OF certafn
portions OF The human anatomy. 1t Is
CHASTITY sight to witness a score of dead bodies,
or as many portions thereof, lying in all
stagea Of dissection, stiff and stark. sorround-
ed by young men clad in butchers overalls,
and armed with small scalpels, with which
they cut say flesh. fAls Or nsscslsr 6ts1,
while following up veins or arteriesto their
connec.,oas Nth vit& paris er searching
into the structure Of heart. lungs or kidneys,
according to the bent Of they &uldies. Upon
one table lay the uncovered form of woman;
and farther On. the corpse of . pretty little
child, with aaxen cuvls, was being cut up for
the benefit OF living children two students
we're working together upon this, SINAI sub
tetN which they treated somewhat tAd ait.
With open books before them, these y0Rg
men deity pi- .hei- ttg-r steel instruments,
the ncised flesh being held open by small
hooks chained together in = manner that
enables the operator TO obtain unuanimeled
working space upon that part of the body
which be is investigating
A~sfhen these suhiects NE Srs, bruuTst 10 tie
dasecting room, an attendant ,njects into the
veins preparation of plaster, colored with
vermilhon. This brings out distinctly all
minnte courses through which the blood
passes. and materially aids the student in
tracing their direcilsu and fapsnon. heAdss
he subject. Periodically pemopsffFatat
Vi Anatomy makes his appearance in the dis
seetng room. and discourses learnsdy upon
some portion of anatomy laid bare before the
class, whose scalpels are laid down and h
bles are deserted, while they crowd around
the Professor during the delivery of his lee
ture. In this manner The medical students
80 trass.ca.,y talghs much tnat otner peepi5
only henr or read about. Il is not, there
fore, surprising that they soon become &C
cusiomed 10 scenes which, at first sight Of the
.aisseeting room, curdled the blood IN their
veins. Undue leEity Is frowned upon BY the
professors and gentlemen in attendance, but,
nevertheless, at times some tun-loving Young
ster perpetrates Joke which is quite out of
place Ia the dssecting room.
As general rule. the remains are treated
e. respectfully - the pursuit of suience per
mliis. and when subject has been snfi>
cteney uiaecleu, me nesn ana ZONES nse
gathered np and disposed offor proper burial.
From two DAYS totwo weeks is sometimes oc-
elp.ed il tie Disposal &C tie Lolg, although
Il no. unfre9uently happens that q head, an
arm, or D kg. is retained for q month Or
more, during which time some student Is en-
gagged, for several hours daily, investigating
its structure. When the work of one day is
left over, TO Be eoatinued co the following
day, it is usually covered with oiled silk, or
wrapped in cloth, for the purpose of ex-
GLIDING the atmosphere, which would decom-
pose the sssnsSeet't Drring the winter sea
son such precautions are not SO frequently res
sorted 10. In cold weather the body is better
kept uncovered; there's ore each student when
he leaves his dissection, merely pins upon
the flesh piece Of paper bearing his name,
thus giving notice TO the attendants and ai
others that he proposes to resume operations
again