The Sun. — 1832-02-07 (London, England)

SPEAKER—It is not presented yet.—(A laugh.) Mr. STRICKLAND said he would not press it. Mr. BLAMIRE presented a petition from Workington against the Registry Bill ; also two other petitions of a similar nature from parishes in Cumberland. Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition from the Corporation of Surgeons of Edinburgh, praying that facility might be given to the study of anatomy. Mr. O'CONNELL would take that opportunity of mentioning a few facts to the House connected with the subject of anatomy, which had been detailed to him. It might be incredible to the House, but he had been assured that it was the fact that a person in Ireland had actually received no less a sum than 361. for three bodies exported rum Ireland into England. So large a sum, the Hon. Member considered, held out the greatest possible inducements to murder. He was clearly of opinion that sonic mode must be adopted, and that immediately, to give greater facility to the students at medical schools. If the law of the country continued to deprive the medical student of those facilities which were necessary to the prosecution of his studies, the result would be that the science would be given up in this country, as students would go to France, where every facility was given to so important a branch of the education of a medical man.  Mr. HUN I' believed that the sum a hich had been stated by the Hon. Member for Kerry was the average price which bad been given for subjects for some time past. He understood that the College of Surgeons, in Dublin, had lectured for some time on artificial by subjects, prepared andar hadtificial met with universal approbation. It was extraordinary, as the study of anatomy was carried on with such success in Paris, with artificial subjects, it could not be pursued in this country with equal benefit. For himself, he understood that the student after practising upon the artificial subject might, by dissections on two or three real subjects, acquire as good a knowledge of anatomy as if he had had the dissection of forry real ones. The first surgeons in London had examined and expressed their approbation of the artificial subjects. He considered the Bill introduced by the Hon. Member fur Bridport calculated to do every thing to promote science, but nothing for the security of the public. Mr. CRAMPTON hid no hesitation in saying that the information which the Hon. Member for Preston had received fromhu=,linwas perfectly inaccurate. Unless some such Bill as that introduced by the Hon. Member for Bridport became the Irw of the land, there would be no security for the life of any human being. Mr. SHELL was sure that tnere was not a single surgeon in Dublin who would agree in the necessity of anatomy being dispensed with. Mr. ROBINSON observed that there was a great difference of opinion among tnedical men with respect to the merits of the Bill introduced by the Hon. Member for Bridport. He did not mean to say that he was opposed to that Bill, but he implored the House to give its most serious attention to the subject before it came to any positive enactment on the subject. Sir R. INGLIS thought no time should be lost in giving facilities to the students of anatomy. He did not agree altogether with the Bill of the Honourable Member for Bridport, he bad his own views on the subject, but he was quite sure some interference on the part of the Legislature was absolutely necessary. Mr. WARBURTON concurred with the Hon. Member for Preston, when he stated that artificial bodies would in a great measure lessen the necessity for disecting real bodies, but the former did not by any means supersede the latter.—(Hear.) The very authorities which be (Mr. Hunt) had quoted, showed the absurdity of the information he had received. Such was the case with the opinion of Sir Astley Cooper, as given in the printed report; and even when Dr. Basset had made the very finished model that had been referred to, the Medical Board