The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-01-25
OUR STORY TELLER.
A RESURRECTIONIST'S NOTE.
BOOK.
fChicsao Tribune. I

TChiosao Tribune.l
Having been appointed Demonstration of
Anatomy to the Chicago Medical College
soon after receiving his degree of Medicine
Doctor, the principal incidents narrated in
the following came under the observation.
or otherwise to the knowledge, of the writer
while occupying that position. To the sub
stantial correctness of the narrative he is
willing to vouch, although, for obvious rea-
sons, he had dislocated names and dates to
some extent. Other witnesses to its literal
ness might also readily be found among the
survivors of those whose names are given
Aside from this merit, however, it has
neither lesson, moral, argument, nor other
justification for its publication save such as
may be pleaded for the interest which at.
taches to the records of the res qesto tsnporis
Gett-the traditions of the deeds and ex.
plolts OF an earlier day. The abrupt de-
movement is due to the somewhat sudden
and unlooked-for participation of the writer
in the historic, but hardly more intensely
dramatic, scenes of the war of the great re-
bellion.-REP.1
They were in a quandary-the men,
bers of the Faculty of the Medical De-
partment of Lind University, as the
Chicago Medical College was originally
styled.
OOiuCuly III uuduudTy.
During the lecture session, then
drawing to a close, the college had
been badly scooped" by its rival,
"Old Rush."
Many of the members of the Faculty
had held chairs in the Rush, and were
DESTROYS of preserving amicable relations
with the senior institution. In their
innocence and total want of guile they
had "given themselves away" in the
argot OF the classroom, on many points
but In no way so completely and dis
astrously as on the subject of supply
of material for the dissecting-room.
In those early days, and before "resur-
rectionizing" had become one of the fine
arts, twas no easy task to keep the busy
scalpels of two or three hundred students
supplied with subjects, even without
competition. But these difficulties were
Immensely increased when a rival in
stitution entered the market, and bid
for the services of the only purveyor
OF !" long pig" then engaged in the
business.
Daniel Brainard-" the COUNT as he
was famili-rly called-was then the ia.
nous Professor of Surgery and President
OF the Rush Faculty; and Edwin
fowell, te raeren de son oncle, held the post
OF Demonstration of Anatomy. just how
1t was brought about will probably
never be known, but convention was
eventually made between the rival
demonstrators, whereby it was agreed
that the services of the aforesaid mr.
veyor were to inure to the benefit of the
Two colleges on alternate nights the
Hush reaping the fruits of his noctur-
nal toll on one night, and the Lind on
the next.
The Arcadian simplicity of this ar
rangement was marred, however, soon
after the opening of the session, by a
series of the most untoward interrup-
tlons, and which by some strange coin
cldence, always occurred on the nights
llotted to Lind.
Old Hans, the resurrectionist, re-
ported time after time, the most hair
raising stories of his narrow escapes
from capture, as his excuse for failing
to keep the tables of Lind's dissectipe.
rooms duly set forth with the funereal
meats necessary to safe the students' an
Peutes. Finally, stung to action by the
comments OF his colleagues and by the
rapidly-waning class, whose deserving
members found abundant aliment at
hush, the Lind Demonstration insisted
on accompanying Hans upon one of his
midnight forays IN propria persona.
whether the charge of bird-shot,
laboriously picked next day out of the
skin and superficial fascia covering the
gluteal muscles of the unfortunate and
adventuresome Demonstration by the
Lind Professor of Surgery, DIR. Edmund
Andrews, was therein deposited by a
Rush student, masquerading in the
guise OF watcher" and whether such
phlebotomy was countenanced or sug-
gested by the Faculty of Rush. are
questions which furnished theses for
very animated discussions among the
handful of embryo medicuses who still
gathered around the sparse SET boards of
Lind's dissecting-room.
Certain 1t is, however, that the exhibit
tion OF this precipitate of lead, and the
subsequent three weeks experience of
the unlucky Demonstration (which, bv
the way, was the reverse of ascetic5.
furnished the Faculty with what It
deemed fundamental reasons for declar-
ing his seat vacant, a conclusion to
which he-prone Ia veat,e-was, per-
force, after the extraction OF the remain.
ing pellets, compelled to yield painful
assent.
The witty, but rather Rabelaisian,
verses generally attributed TO the ready
and rufous Professor of Theory and
Practice in Rush, and sung with great
gusto by the various gangs or sets
in the dissectingroom of that institu-
ton to q CHASTITY accompaniment of
devils tattooe, beaten with old femurs
and ossa hunssri, probably live vet
among the traditions of the college; but