New-York tribune., 1880-02-15
HUMAN TITISECTiON.
Ernln Ihe Lnud0n EchO.

In The Spectator for September % there appeared
n review Of book entitled "CuUOsltcS OF Itnal
Law by Signor Alfonso AndrcozzI III me 1hu-
iris,chOHist for October /, at page J57 tile cdlOr
tan F.R.C.S. and MIDI rcprOduccs tins review, I'M
dcs the heading OF Science and It's Necessities"
The truly horrible fact says the reviewer.
"of which SignOr AndrcoZzi may be called
the discovered Is that thirteen men ana women
condemned to death for yarou, crimes by
the Florentmc judges were, by tine order ol COsmo
L. Duke OF Tuscany, delivered over alive. TO be
anatomical in the medical schools OF Pisa. Ihe
anatOmists of the University OF l'iSa seem to nave
been In cspecal favor with the aforesaid tOsmU
kindly Obliged them with the gift OF a hylng man
or woman every year or two as required. These are
some of the cases quoted 10y fioicsSor AhdreoII
fsom the register IN the AIchiN9 Cilmnais
l. 10 jan. 11lJ-Hlnia dI MaIloIo laichi ul
Mugello. wife of Bastlano Lucchese, condemned TO
be bcheadcd tor infIuticlde nder the sentence II
written, DctI Santa, de mcnte ENcclml Duclo
fnit misSa PIsis, de pen doctOrcs ii'rrt notona
twas sent to Pisa To be made an anaiOmy-to be
y4yI,cctcd-by the doctors thercI No notice 10 Oe
found of any execution Of the wonlau suchas would
have appeared had she been pnt 10 d'ah before shc
WAS sent To- IiSl.
-. II Dec. 15l7.-GIuho Mancn Sanese con
d,inmed lor robbery and other oiituccS. bucatuI
Piss pro iacendo de 60 notomia scnt TO fisa 10 DE
a / sent. 1j5l.-Maddaleua the end
of tine horrible extract Is. Went to ISa to be made
II. II Dec. I552-A man named Zucchcria.
reserved from hanging. "itb bis comlade. ana sent
-. - Dec i552.~-l'livo d. Paolo condemned
10 be- hanged tor poisoning hts vile. sentence
changed to he sent for anatomy. Was sent &"
Pisa 18Th January.
% : Nov. BOB NaTgucrta wife of Bd.lo 81 An
tiuorn condemned to bc hrirdLcd Tor uiiautIcldc.
2Oth December, released from tie iettcrs and
consigned to q family, who Took her to Pisa 10 the
Comniisstro, vino gave her as usual, g. the Inato-
mist tcmakc Anatomy Of hrr. which Was done, che
l. couscgni sccopdo soli0. al notomia, per iane
HCtomia. come tu iatto.I
seven other ease. irom 1914 10 1870, are Ie-
co,,.ed with equally unlu stJhabic cNartttGdr. We
have thus historical evidence That science lu cIYI-
lizcd iialN when She could get thcn, made
a dozon human MARTYRS Nly,srctiug ~ cuce
accepted from tine Executive Government ot lus-
cunN men and women. regarding thc-. Condriuntd
criminals ~ Uu the words ol Professor Huxley 1s
applied To dog,l valuable iOr the purposes oi re-
srafch.'
"What became Of the poor creatures consigned
10 the anatDmst to make au anatomy "l them
the IMAGINATION shIiuhs from picturng. lh"fc
could be- no u-e at that time OF uuN au@,hrilc.
either real "r. like cuIarc fictitious. The
names of Fiopu- and Ncaiius occurring In
connection with these human ylylscctionN suggest
that a. the circulation of thr hearts action hen IN
tercstcd Italian scientists. II s probable that the
victims breasts were opened, and that the learned
indusitors prycd ~ long and "a Tar ds they could
INTO throbhiug muscle and bleeding artery till
death stopped "a last their interesting study.
Happy for The victims II 80 deadly an operation
were the first tired upon them, and that they were
not subjected tO score of ingenious torments be-
f,r.. tbsi. ,ig JyGg