The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-02

ever identified, and of these twenty-five
five were young, well clothed. handsome
even in death. The other twenty were may
hap young, mayhsp old, but with vice and
crime written in every Iinament
These river dead are never used by US,
said Prof. Irving Haynes, the Medical mi
versity's demonstrator OK anatomy. I'VE
get the cases OF unclaimed dead from the
hospitals. Under the law, you know, these
are divided up between the Physicians and
Surgeons College, the university, Bellvue
College, the ost-Graduate. the Homeo-
pathic, the Womau's Medical College and
the Polytechnic. The division is according
to the number of students. l think that
the Physicians and Surgeons Institute and
the university lead. 1t all goes by turns
For instance, an unknown dies at Bellevue.
II the body is not claimed in the legal time.
twenty-four hours, or, at the discretion of
the warden, for long period, it goes to the
college that happens to be on turn O,
yes! The Woman'S Medical College gets its
regular quota of male as well as female
bodies. The bodies of children are not
taken into the dissecting ROOM"
IN THE DIssECrING ROOM.
DR.. HAYNES assured me that there was a
very popular misconception as to the
meth of work in the d1ssecting room.
The effort is always to secure bodies in
ease has not eaten into the system. The
idea s to give the student accurate ideas of
the structure of the body, of the muscles
and their attachments, of the arteries and
nerves and their distribution. In fact the
bulk of the cases handled at the hospitals are
deaths from alcoholism, from gunshot
wounds, from pneumonia or Of some dis
ease the influence Of which leaves
the parts fairly intact. The great oper-
atinR room in the hospitals and in
the colleges is an amphltheater, with sky
light where this is possible, and the seats
are arranged in high tiers, 50 that the view
from above is as clear as that from below.
In the disaster six students are given the
knives and begin the work Of cutting
through the integument. Each part as it is
separated is made the subject OF special in
struotion by the demonstration.
1t is In the department Of histology,
however. where the great interest of the
mdical student centers. Here comes the
bodies of ''odd Deaths Here it is where
the heart Of the apoplectic is made an oc-
casion of special inquiry, where the cerebel-
lum. the spinal column and the medulla of
the unknown woman who died in the in
sane pavilion ELECTS the most careful sys-
tenn of research. Every fact connected
with the illness, with the career before go
ing into the hospital, Is locked into, and
then in the light of the story of life, as
far as it could be learned, the cause Of
death is made plain. DR.. LOOMS, who Is
the demonstration in the department of his
tology at the medical university, is re-
garded as perhaps the most efficient and
careful medical Investigator in the country.
He was averse TO discussing the subject Of
his work for publica ion, as IL was all, he
remarked, matter of medical detail. which
could only interest the men, who, with
broad basis of medical knowledge, CLEANED
new information from 1t. Nevertheless, 1t
must be said that the doctors recent expert
ments have been of great value to the
medical world. They have all been, l am
| told, in the line of nerve diseases. Prof.
Stearns Is another famous demonstration in
the department Of histology. At tho
Woman's Medical College great deal Of
this work was until recently done by DR..
Mary Putnam jacob, who is as skillful
with the surgeons knife as she is In the de-
lection of some functional trouble. At this
college the demonstrating room is similar
to that in other institutions. and the young
lady doctors take as deep an interest in this
work as do the rather sport inclined male
students.
STRANGE IDENTIFICATION.
At the larger institutions one body a day
is often the average for months. As a rule,
however, it is less, and some OF the smaller
Institutions are satisfied with one body a
week. At the NOR que the Averages is twenty
one gay, so Tue supply IL CONSTANT, al
though really but a small percentage of
these twenty-one go to the colleges. This enor-
nous average is made up in addition to the
deaths in the Outdoor poor" class, from the
deaths at Bellevue. at the Charity, at the
insane asylum, at Randalps, at Harris Island,
at the ''lunatic" pavillions, at the peniten-
Liary and at the work house.
During my rounds was told the story Of
a queer case of Identification on one OF the
college dissecting tables which occurred
during April A young woman died OF one
OF the better class Of hospitals, and after
colleges. She had come here from a neigh
boring city, had taken q position al clerk in
Broadway store, and whom seized with a
serious ailment was sent by her employer TO
a hospital In week ste was dead The
employer did not care 70 pay the expenses
of burial. no one claimed the body, and so
the dissecting table soon bad her as a victim
to soulless science. Hardly had the eloth
been removed when one Of the students In
the upper tier rushed below, and with
blanched face, remarked:
"I know this girl. She was a schoolmate
OF mine. Her folks are well to do, and
some great mistake has certainly been made
here"
An investigation proved part Of the story
true. The girl was, in fact, the person he
had named. but the father absolutely re-
fused to have anything whatever to do with
the daughter in life or death, and so she was
brought back to the surgeons table,
DAVID WECHsLER.
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