The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-16

commodities there is sometimes glut In
the market and sometimes u scarcity. In
cold weather the stock can be kept for
long time with impunity, and 1t would be
easy to get upa ''corner" If few of the |
leading operators were 80 inclined, while |
in warm weather 1t is necessary to work
off the goods as fast rs possible or suspend |
business entirely As to the sources of
supply In this city the almshouse and pen
itentiary are the most available. The bod |
les are brought down In coffee sacks, carts
or wheelbarrows and policemen on the beat
by the college usually take the opposite
side of the street when these mysterious
bundles are carried in and all passes off
quietly and no questions are asked. The
nakedness with which these bodies enter
the dssecting room is only equalled by that
in which they entered the world. Even
the long tresses which Paul said were the
glory of woman, are wanting, for womans
hair has too highly commercial value to
| slip through the fingers OF men
employed in this business. Some of
the bodies are found with faces
disfgured so as to make recognition
impossible, for this is by no means unusual
on the dissectng table. In one case stu
dent identified his uncle whom he had not
heard from for years. Relatives some
times reclaim bodies from the knife, but
sometimes they come too late. A beauti-
full girl from Scoharie county, or what re
NAMED of her, was once reclaimed by her
friends. But since the decline of body
snatchng instances of this kind are very
rare and much of the romance of the
chamber of death has passed away. The
unfortunate woman of the town more than
any one class furnish food for the scalpel.
In fact it may be said that this is their
common end, for who ever hears of pros
titute's funeral Cast off by the friends
of her youthful innocence and deserted by
the companions of her career. there Is none
left to do her reverence, even when ''all
that remains is pure, womanly." Occa-
sionally form finds its way hither whose
beauty of contour is as worthy the immor-
|
talty of marble as the Venus of Milo. But
sculptors models are too fat for the desect-
ing room, and here, at least scrawny wo-
men are more eagerly sought after than
their plumper sisters AS the students
have to listen to six or seven lectures per
day, besides the clinics, night i, the time
in which they are obliged to dssect, the
favorite hours being from late in
the evening till two or three
o'clock in the morning, the hours
when churchyards yawn, night birds
! fit and COLLINS wau." On a first entrance
the sight seems fairly incredible. The
room is brilliantly lighted and the devotees
of science are seen working in groupes or
singly, cutting or saving or reading from
, text books and listening TO their instruc-
tors alternately. Sometimes the utmost
: quiet prevails and every one is intent on
= his solemn researches anon the greatest
hilarity prevails and scenes are enacted
I which ought to put even cannibals to blush
: Pelting each other with human flesh ant
/ practical jokes of the most ghas'ly natur'
i are among the pastimes. Lucky is .h'
b | ,si,or 10 th;e -o~--- ne finds nothing
I. worse in his pockets after leaving than al
ear or a finger. Smoking out the law stu
dents is accomplished by placing in thu
stove in their room parcel of flesh which
as soon as the fire reaches it creates
stencil that is undurable But it is
hat pista
students are the greatest towards and tn,
one who does not hesitate to commit al
manner of sacrilege in the presence of
q crowd, is rarely ever found in the dissect
y ing room alone. In order to get diploma
O each student must have dissected one Who'll,
It body but as five work on one body at ono,
!. each student operates on five differen,
O. bodies during the term. They generally
Il do this in the junior year. Each one mus
have a dissecting case costing about tel
dollars and while dissecting keeps by hi
side bottle of castor oil to 'anoint hi
g hands as a preventive against infection
e and bottle of whisky or jug of beer will
which he anoints the inner man, for reason
is best known to himself. Also they general
,, ly all have cigar in the mouth. Thu
e great bugbears of the dissecting room ar
cut or wounds from the instruments Will
q smeared with matter from the cadaver ant
IS smallpox. The latter is seldom met will
u but the former are not infrequent and ar,
II very serious, sometimes producing death o
&c the loss of an arm, and always much pail
and suffering. DR.. Slack, very promi
r nent physician of Peekskll, is at the pres
&c ent writing not expected to live, from
81 cut received while making post-mori EN-
IS But students sometimes get reckless ant
e only last year there was fight in the dis
d sectng room with scalpels, probably tn
o result of the aforementioned jug, and tin
u only wonder Is that accidents of this kint
II are not more common. There is anothe
! use to which cadavers are put that seem
almost too horrible to relate Classes ar
d formed in medical jurisprudence an,
i among the illustrative experiments dea,
IL bodies are set up on end and fired into, o
y the skull is crushed in by some some blum
! instrument. Students are then admitted
e and taught how to determine the circum
u stances of the assault and other things b,
70 the nature of the wound. All the refus
. matter of the dissecting room is collecte,
% in tubs and late at night a great fire is bull
y in the large stove which stands in the cen
~ ter of the room, and the mangled mass ere
l
VI an institution of science, and horrid as the,
J. are, are some of the prime necessities o
= medical advancement. Each of your read
y ers may educe for himself moral reflection
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